Generalized expectancies for negative mood regulation predict change in anxiety and depression among college students

Negative mood regulation (NMR) expectancies, or the beliefs held by individuals that, when faced with various manifestations of stress and negative affect, they can successfully cope with such mood states, have proven to be a most useful construct in the context of better understanding self-regulato...

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Published in:Behaviour research and therapy 2007-05, Vol.45 (5), p.939-950
Main Authors: Kassel, Jon D., Bornovalova, Marina, Mehta, Neera
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affect
Anxiety
Anxiety - psychology
Anxiety symptoms
Biological and medical sciences
College students
Coping
Correlation analysis
Depression
Depression - psychology
Depressive symptoms
Emotional regulation
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mood disorders
Mood regulation expectancies
Moods
Prospective Studies
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychological Theory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regression analysis
Risk Factors
Symptoms
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Summary:Negative mood regulation (NMR) expectancies, or the beliefs held by individuals that, when faced with various manifestations of stress and negative affect, they can successfully cope with such mood states, have proven to be a most useful construct in the context of better understanding self-regulatory processes. In the present prospective study, we examined the predictive utility of NMR expectancies with respect to its ability to predict residual change in both depressive and anxiety symptoms over an 8-week timeframe in a sample of 322 college students. Initial correlational analyses revealed that, as anticipated, NMR expectancies were negatively correlated with depressive and anxiety symptomatology, as well as with maladaptive coping style. Conversely, NMR expectancies were positively associated with self-reported adaptive coping. A series of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that, even when controlling for age, sex, baseline levels of affective distress (depression or anxiety), and coping styles, NMR expectancies predicted change in both depressive and anxiety symptomatology. Implications of the findings pertinent to theory building and testing are discussed.
ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2006.07.014