Event Title
Faculty Sponsor
Tanya Tompkins
Location
Jereld R. Nicholson Library
Date
5-13-2011 3:00 PM
End Date
5-13-2011 4:30 PM
Subject Area
Psychology (general)
Description
Rose (2002) first defined co-rumination as excessive problem-focused discussion. Co-rumination has been found to be associated both concurrently and prospectively with depressive symptoms and positive friendship quality. However, the emerging literature has focused almost solely on youth. Thus, the primary aim of the current study is to extend a longitudinal examination of co-rumination, depression, anxiety, and friendship quality to a sample of emerging adults to understand whether co-rumination contributes to change in adjustment and friendship quality over time or whether, instead, co-rumination is simply a correlate of these variables. Second, we examined gender differences in co-rumination and whether gender moderated the longitudinal relationships between co-rumination and depression/anxiety and friendship quality.
Participants (56 women, 46 men; M=19.6 years) were recruited through introductory psychology classes, instructed to bring a same-sex close friend, and completed measures of co-rumination, friendship quality (FQ), and internalizing problems. Seventy-nine students (78%) participated again one year later.
Expected concurrent relationships and gender differences were found. Longitudinal associations were not found, nor did gender moderate these relationships. With limited research on co-rumination, it is unclear whether unique sampling issues or a meaningful developmental shift from adolescence to adulthood explains the lack of prospective relationships. Longitudinal research that spans this developmental transition and collects observational data and includes peer context variables which may vary with age is sorely needed. Such designs promise to enhance our understanding of the unique ways in which co-rumination may change across developmental contexts and whether certain factors predict varying trajectories.
Recommended Citation
Tompkins, Tanya and Tang, Mengni, "Concurrent and Prospective Associations among Co-rumination, Adjustment, and Friendship in Emerging Adults" (2011). Science and Social Sciences. Event. Submission 5.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/studsymp_sci/2011/all/5
Concurrent and Prospective Associations among Co-rumination, Adjustment, and Friendship in Emerging Adults
Jereld R. Nicholson Library
Rose (2002) first defined co-rumination as excessive problem-focused discussion. Co-rumination has been found to be associated both concurrently and prospectively with depressive symptoms and positive friendship quality. However, the emerging literature has focused almost solely on youth. Thus, the primary aim of the current study is to extend a longitudinal examination of co-rumination, depression, anxiety, and friendship quality to a sample of emerging adults to understand whether co-rumination contributes to change in adjustment and friendship quality over time or whether, instead, co-rumination is simply a correlate of these variables. Second, we examined gender differences in co-rumination and whether gender moderated the longitudinal relationships between co-rumination and depression/anxiety and friendship quality.
Participants (56 women, 46 men; M=19.6 years) were recruited through introductory psychology classes, instructed to bring a same-sex close friend, and completed measures of co-rumination, friendship quality (FQ), and internalizing problems. Seventy-nine students (78%) participated again one year later.
Expected concurrent relationships and gender differences were found. Longitudinal associations were not found, nor did gender moderate these relationships. With limited research on co-rumination, it is unclear whether unique sampling issues or a meaningful developmental shift from adolescence to adulthood explains the lack of prospective relationships. Longitudinal research that spans this developmental transition and collects observational data and includes peer context variables which may vary with age is sorely needed. Such designs promise to enhance our understanding of the unique ways in which co-rumination may change across developmental contexts and whether certain factors predict varying trajectories.
Comments
Presenter: Mengni Tang