Short-term affective consequences of specificity of rumination about unresolved personal goals

ConclusionsGreater levels of goal-focused rumination were associated with unhelpful affective consequences only when rumination was low in specificity. Specificity of thought content may be an important determinant of whether goal-focused rumination has helpful or unhelpful effects.

Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research