Rumination Response Scale (RRS)
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Rumination is the process of "compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of one's distress, and on its possible causes and consequences, as opposed to its solutions" (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1998). This process has been studied by the late Susan Nolen-Hoeksma , who was a professor in psychology at Yale University . In a study by Nolen-Hoekseman et al. (1999), it was found that rumination scores in women are higher than in men (p. 1064). They measured this in a
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Source & citation
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2000). The role of rumination in depressive disorders and mixed anxiety/depressive Symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109 , 504–511. | Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Larson, J., & Grayson, C. (1999). Explaining the gender difference in depressive symptoms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77 , 1061–1072. | Treynor, W., Gonzalez, R. and Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2003). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27 , 247-259.
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