0 thinking deeply and for a long period:
a quiet and ruminative temperament
Her writing is less descriptive, more ruminative.
Early adolescent gender differences in the use of ruminative and distracting coping strategies.
Both depression and gender were controlled for when a ruminative or distracting response was used to predict other psychological variables.
Neither self-reported depression score, overgeneral memory retrieval nor ruminative style contributed.
There was no significant difference in level of ruminative style at entry between the groups.
The analysis was carried out with and without the inclusion of ruminative style on account of its potentially circular relationship with distress.
Neither was ruminative response style an independent predictor of persistence.
Our findings concerning high ego development are consistent with extant evidence on the implications of ruminative tendencies for depression among women.
The persistent group were also found to have had significantly higher depression questionnaire scores and a more ruminative cognitive style at study entry.
