I propose that the ways people respond to their own symptoms of depression influence the
duration of these symptoms. People who engage in ruminative responses to depression …

This article reviews evidence for the roles that mood states and personality traits play in the
processing of emotion-congruent information across different cognitive tasks. Evidence is …

In a university counseling center sample of 247 clients who were treated by 50 therapists,
we retrospectively examined the association between client ratings of their therapists' …

Scale Development: Theory and Applications, by Robert F. DeVellis and new co-author
Carolyn T. Thorpe, demystifies measurement by emphasizing a logical rather than strictly …

What is the biological function of daily mood variations? What is the relationship between
mood and such factors as exercise, time of day, nutrition, stress, and illness? Drawing on his …

Affective experiences are commonly represented by either transient emotional reactions to
discrete events or longer term, sustained mood states that are characterized by a more …

Examined the relationship between ruminative and distracting styles of responding to
depressed mood and the duration of mood. 79 Ss kept accounts of their moods and …

Hypotheses about the self-perpetuating properties of ruminative responses to depressed
mood were tested in 2 laboratory studies and 2 questionnaire studies with dysphoric and …

The phenomenology of dysphoric rumination and its consequences for problem solving
were explored in 3 studies. In Study 1, self-focused rumination, compared with distraction …

Four studies explored the effects of self-focused rumination vs. distraction on dysphoric and
nondysphoric students' retrieval of autobiographical memories. Dysphorics induced to …