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Abstract
Background: Rumination is a well-established transdiagnostic vulnerability. However, few studies have explored the transdiagnostic role of event-related rumination. Moreover, there is a paucity of longitudinal studies clarifying the temporal precedence of event-related rumination. Therefore, this study aimed to longitudinally examine the mediating paths of event-related rumination between perceived stress and diverse symptomatic dimensions.
Methods: A representative sample of Korean adults (N = 316) was recruited online and they completed a package of self-reported measures twice over a one-year period. Using prospective two-wave data collected during the pandemic, longitudinal indirect effects were examined using the hypothesized path model.
Results: As expected, intrusive rumination acted as a transdiagnostic mediator in both internalizing and externalizing psychopathology and was positively associated with all subsequent symptom dimensions, except mania. Meanwhile, the beneficial role of deliberate rumination was less-transdiagnostic.
Conclusion: These initial findings suggest that event-related rumination could be considered a transdiagnostic mediator and a target for prevention and intervention to maintain mental health during and after the pandemic.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.