Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men

Autoren

Jannika De Rubeis
Ricardo G Lugo
Michael Witthöft
Stefan Sütterlin
Markus R Pawelzik
Claus Vögele

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0185802

Editoren

Lin Lu

eISSN

1932-6203

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10

Zeitschrift

PLOS ONE

Sprache

en

Online publication date

2017

Paginierung

e0185802 - e0185802

Status

Published online

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185802

Datum der Datenerfassung

2018

Titel

Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

12

Datenquelle: Crossref

Abstract

Consistent across time and cultures, men and male adolescents older than 14 years of age appear underrepresented in mood disorders, and are far less likely than women to seek psychological help. The much higher rate of suicide amongst males suggests that depression in men might be underreported. One of the core human motives is to seek acceptance by others and avoid rejection. Rejection Sensitivity (RS) has been conceptualized as the cognitive-affective processing disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely respond to cues of rejection in the behavior of others. RS has been previously linked with the onset and course of depression, but-as yet-has not been investigated longitudinally in a clinical population. We investigated the predictive role of RS to symptom deterioration 6 months after end-of- treatment in 72 male inpatients with depressive spectrum disorder. The BDI was administered at intake, end-of-treatment and 6 month follow-up. RS scores were obtained at intake. Rejection Sensitivity had additional predictive power on BDI scores at 6 months follow-up controlling for BDI scores at end-of-treatment (ΔR2 = .095). The results are discussed in terms of the importance of targeting RS during treatment, and highlight the fact that therapeutic follow-up care is paramount. Future research should investigate possible mediators of the RS-relapse-to-depression association, such as self-blame, rumination, neuroticism, pessimism, emotion dysregulation, and low self-esteem.

Addresses

Institute for Health and Behaviour, Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

Autoren

Jannika De Rubeis
Ricardo G Lugo
Michael Witthöft
Stefan Sütterlin
Markus R Pawelzik
Claus Vögele

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0185802

eISSN

1932-6203

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 29049292
PubMed Central ID: PMC5648166

Open access

true

ISSN

1932-6203

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

10

Zeitschrift

PloS one

Schlüsselwörter

Humans
Depression
Adolescent
Adult
Middle Aged
Male
Young Adult
Rejection, Psychology

Sprache

eng

Medium

Electronic-eCollection

Online publication date

2017

Open access status

Open Access

Paginierung

e0185802

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2017

Status

Published

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CC BY

Datum der Datenerfassung

2017

Titel

Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men.

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research-article
Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

12

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Abstract

Consistent across time and cultures, men and male adolescents older than 14 years of age appear underrepresented in mood disorders, and are far less likely than women to seek psychological help. The much higher rate of suicide amongst males suggests that depression in men might be underreported. One of the core human motives is to seek acceptance by others and avoid rejection. Rejection Sensitivity (RS) has been conceptualized as the cognitive-affective processing disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely respond to cues of rejection in the behavior of others. RS has been previously linked with the onset and course of depression, but-as yet-has not been investigated longitudinally in a clinical population. We investigated the predictive role of RS to symptom deterioration 6 months after end-of- treatment in 72 male inpatients with depressive spectrum disorder. The BDI was administered at intake, end-of-treatment and 6 month follow-up. RS scores were obtained at intake. Rejection Sensitivity had additional predictive power on BDI scores at 6 months follow-up controlling for BDI scores at end-of-treatment (ΔR2 = .095). The results are discussed in terms of the importance of targeting RS during treatment, and highlight the fact that therapeutic follow-up care is paramount. Future research should investigate possible mediators of the RS-relapse-to-depression association, such as self-blame, rumination, neuroticism, pessimism, emotion dysregulation, and low self-esteem.

Date of acceptance

2017

Autoren

Jannika De Rubeis
Ricardo G Lugo
Michael Witthöft
Stefan Sütterlin
Markus R Pawelzik
Claus Vögele

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29049292

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0185802

eISSN

1932-6203

Externe Identifier

PubMed Central ID: PMC5648166

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

10

Zeitschrift

PLoS One

Schlüsselwörter

Adolescent
Adult
Depression
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Rejection, Psychology
Young Adult

Sprache

eng

Country

United States

Paginierung

e0185802

PII

PONE-D-17-03153

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2017

Status

Published online

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2017

Titel

Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men.

Sub types

Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

12

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Rejection sensitivity as a vulnerability marker for depressive symptom deterioration in men

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