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- Title
Flexibility and Negative Affect: Examining the Associations of Explanatory Flexibility and Coping Flexibility to Each Other and to Depression and Anxiety.
- Authors
Fresco, David M.; Williams, Nathan L.; Nugent, Nicole R.
- Abstract
Recent research on vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety has begun to de-emphasize cognitive content in favor of the responsiveness of the individual to variations in situational context in arriving at explanations of events (explanatory flexibility) or attempts to cope with negative events (coping flexibility). The present study integrates these promising avenues of conceptualization by assessing the respective contributions of explanatory and coping flexibility to current levels of depression and anxiety symptoms. Results of structural equation modeling support a model of partial mediation in which both explanatory flexibility and coping flexibility independently contribute to the prediction of latent negative affect, with coping flexibility partially mediating the influence of explanatory flexibility.
- Subjects
ADAPTABILITY (Personality); PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; MENTAL depression; ANXIETY; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Cognitive Therapy & Research, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0147-5916
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10608-006-9019-8