The Relative Specificity of Excessive Reassurance-Seeking to Depressive Symptoms and Diagnoses Among Clinical Samples of Adults and Youth |
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Authors: | Thomas E. Joiner Gerald I. Metalsky Faruk Gencoz Tulin Gencoz |
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Affiliation: | (1) Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida;(2) Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin;(3) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
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Abstract: | In addition to playing a role in the deterioration of depressed people's interpersonal environment, excessive reassurance-seeking may be implicated as a vulnerability factor for depression. If so, excessive reassurance-seeking should display relative specificity to depression versus other forms of psychopathology. Two studies of psychiatric inpatients (Study 1 on adults and Study 2 on children) tested this possibility. In Study 1 a Depressed group obtained higher reassurance-seeking scores than an Other Disorders group did. Similar findings were obtained in Study 2, such that depressed youth reported higher reassurance-seeking than nondepressed youth. Hence, these two studies of psychiatric inpatients provided reasonable support for the specificity of excessive reassurance-seeking to depression as compared to other forms of psychopathology. |
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Keywords: | excessive reassurance-seeking depression |
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