RT Journal Article
T1 Testing the impaired disengagement hypothesis: the role of attentional control and positive metacognitive beliefs in depression
A1 Salguero-Noguera, José Martín
A1 Ramos-Cejudo, Juan
A1 García-Sancho, Esperanza
A1 Arbulu, Ilyana
A1 Zaccagnini-Sancho, José Luis
A1 Bjureberg, Johan
A1 Gross, James J.
K1 Pensamiento
K1 Depresión mental
K1 Conflicto (Psicología)
AB The impaired disengagement hypothesis holds that people ruminate – and thus increase their risk for depression – due to impaired attentional control and conflict signaling. We tested this hypothesis by examining the role of attentional control and conflict signaling (operationalized as positive metacognitive beliefs) in rumination and depressive symptoms. We expected that attentional control and positive metacognitive beliefs would be associated with depressive symptoms and that these associations would be cross-sectionally mediated by rumination. We tested two community samples (Study 1, N= 289; Study 2, N= 292), assessing attentional control, positive metacognitive beliefs, rumination, and depressive symptoms. In both studies, attentional control and positive metacognitive beliefs were significantly associated with rumination and depression, and path analyses corroborated the proposed mediation model. Our findings support the impaired disengagement hypothesis, and suggest that attentional control and positive metacognitive beliefs may be informative in the personalization of depression assessment and treatment.
PB Elsevier
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33226
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33226
LA eng
NO José M. Salguero, Juan Ramos-Cejudo, Esperanza García-Sancho, Ilyana Arbulu, José L. Zaccagnini, Johan Bjureberg, James J. Gross, Testing the impaired disengagement hypothesis: The role of attentional control and positive metacognitive beliefs in depression, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 146, 2021, 103961, ISSN 0005-7967, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103961
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026