چکیده:
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between positive affect, negative affect, rumination and depression, and to explore the mediating role of rumination between positive and negative affect and depression.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 249 students, selected by convenience sampling method. All the participants completed positive and negative affect schedule, The Ruminative Response Scale and Beck depression inventory. Statistical analysis was done using the R 3.4.2 software.
Results: Positive affect exhibited a significant negative relationship with rumination and depression. Also, there was a significant positive relationship between negative affect and rumination and depression. In addition, results showed that rumination partially mediated the relationship of positive and negative affect with depression.
Conclusion: Considering the results, it can be concluded that rumination, directly and indirectly, mediates between positive and negative affect and depression, and can predict depression. Based on the increasing positive affect and reducing negative affect, therapeutic interventions can be provided that would decrease rumination, and thereby prevent or control depression
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: Relationship Between Positive and Negative Affect and Depression: The Mediating Role of Rumination Batool Ahadi1* /, Mozhgan Lotfi2, Fatemeh Moradi3 1.
Relationship Between Positive and Negative Affect and Depression: The Mediating Role of Rumination.
All the participants completed positive and negative affect schedule, The Ruminative Response Scale and Beck depression inventory.
In addition, results showed that rumination partially mediated the relationship of positive and negative affect with depression.
Also, studies have shown that lack of positivity and negative cognitions are specifically found in patients diagnosed with depression and are associated with rumination (Blanco & Joormann, 2017).
Therefore, in this study, we aim to understand the me-diating role of rumination between positive and negative affect and depression among students by examining sev-eral hypotheses between the variables and depression.
Finally, it was concluded that ru-mination mediates the relationship between positive and negative affect and depression among students.
The result also showed that in negative affect, rumination and depression have a meaningful and positive relation with one another.
Another aim was to study the mediating role of rumination in the relation between positive and nega-tive affect and depression.
The results of the analysis confirm the hypothesis that rumination mediates the relationship between positive and negative affect and depression among students.
So, further research is needed to investigate the mediating role of rumination in the relation between positive and negative affect and depression in male.
Future studies by using therapeutic interventions could explore the effect of positive affect and negative affect by the mediating role of rumination in decreasing depression.