Authors: Amanda J Rose Gary C Glick Rhiannon L Smith Rebecca A SchwartzMette Sarah K Borowski
Publish Date: 2016/09/14
Volume: 45, Issue: 5, Pages: 985-995
Abstract
Through stress generation individuals’ own thoughts and behaviors can actually lead to increases in their experience of stress Unfortunately stress generation is especially common among individuals who are already suffering from elevated depressive symptoms However despite the acknowledgement that some individuals with depressive symptoms generate greater stress than others few studies have identified specific factors that could exacerbate stress generation among individuals with depressive symptoms The present study examines corumination as a factor that might exacerbate stress generation among adolescents with depressive symptoms using a shortterm longitudinal design Considering these processes among adolescents was critical given that many youth experience increases in depressive symptoms at this developmental stage and that corumination also becomes more common at adolescence Participants were 628 adolescents 326 girls 302 boys who reported on their depressive symptoms experiences of stress and corumination with a best friend Interpersonal stressors peer and family stress and noninterpersonal stressors school and sports stress were assessed Consistent with past research adolescents with depressive symptoms experienced greater interpersonal and noninterpersonal stress over time Importantly corumination interacted with both depressive symptoms and gender in predicting increases in peer stress Depressive symptoms predicted the generation of peer stress only for girls who reported high levels of corumination with friends Implications for protecting youth with depressive symptoms against stress generation are discussed
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