Abstract

GONZALEZ, Manuel; GONZALEZ, Mario  and  ROVELLA, Anna. Anxiety and depressive symptoms in a general population sample: the mediating effect of repetitive negative thoughts, thought suppression, positive reappraisal, and distress resilience. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2024, vol.20, n.1, pp.4-17.  Epub Jan 01, 2024. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.10216.

In this research we present the mediating effect of four intrapersonal coping strategies: repetitive negative thoughts (RNT), thought suppression (TS), positive reappraisal (PR) and distress endurance (DE) on the relationship between negative affect (NA) and positive affect (PA) with anxiety and depressive symptoms. The sample is 536 people from the general population with a mean age of 29.9 (Dt=12.6)) years and with 59.5% women. The mediation results ascertain the following models: 1.1) a direct and inverse mediation model where RNT are a bidirectional mediator between NA and anxiety and depressive symptoms; 2.1) an inverse model, the direct one was not statistically significant, where anxiety and depressive symptoms via TS amplify RNT, not the other way around; 2.2) depressive symptoms via PR dampen RNT; 3. 1) in the direct model DE is a partial mediator between PA and anxiety and depressive symptoms; 3.2) TS is a mediator between NA and depressive symptoms; 4.1) according to inverse model, PR is a partial mediator between anxiety and depressive symptoms with PA, so that the former amplifies PA; 4.2) TS is a mediator between depressive symptoms and NA, so that the former amplifies the latter.

Keywords : positive reappraisal; supression; distress endurance; repetitive negative thoughts; anxiety; depression; mediators.

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