A Longitudinal Rejection Sensitivity Model of Depression and Aggression: Unique Roles of Anxiety, Anger, Blame, Withdrawal and Retribution

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• 作者：Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck ; Drew Nesdale…
• 关键词：Peer rejection ; Coping ; Rejection sensitivity ; depressive symptoms ; Aggressive behavior
• 刊名：Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：44
• 期：7
• 页码：1291-1307
• 全文大小：563 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2835
• 卷排序：44

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In this longitudinal study, attributional and social processes involved in symptoms of mental health problems (depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior) were identified by investigating anxious and angry rejection sensitivity (RS), causal attributions of self-blame and peer-blame, and responses to rejection threat of withdrawal and retribution. Young adolescents (N = 713, grades 5–7) completed questionnaires three times in their regular classrooms over 14 months. Participants who reported more self-blame for rejection were more likely to withdraw in response to rejection threat, and withdrawal and anxious RS were associated with increased depressive symptoms at T3 relative to T1. In contrast, adolescents higher in the angry form of RS and who reported more peer-blame for rejection were more likely to seek retribution, which in turn was associated with more overt/relational aggressive behavior at T3 relative to T1. Depressive symptom level measured at T1 also was associated with later RS and coping with withdrawal, and aggressive behavior at T1 was associated with later retribution. Sex of the participants did not moderate any longitudinal associations, and only one prospective path, from T1 depressive symptoms to T2 RS anxious, was moderated by age.