caa a22 4500 606238913 CHVBK 20210128101300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0 Concurrent and Prospective Associations Between Emotion Reactivity and Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood [Elektronische Daten] [Jennifer Somers, Jessica Borelli, Patricia Smiley, Jessica West, Lori Hilt] According to the emotion context-insensitivity hypothesis (ECI: Rottenberg et al. 2005), depression is associated with emotion reactivity such that depressed individuals are less reactive to stressors. Although little is known about the relation between children's emotion reactivity and the development of depressive symptoms, finding evidence for the ECI before the onset of major depression would suggest that emotion under-reactivity is a risk factor for depression. In this study we address outstanding questions about depression and reactivity by assessing reciprocal associations between emotion reactivity (operationalized as cardiac reactivity to stress) and depressive symptoms in middle childhood, while controlling for rumination. Forty-three children (53% girls) between the ages of 8 and 12 participated in this longitudinal study spanning a 2-year period. At Wave 1, children completed questionnaires to assess depressive symptoms and rumination. In addition, they completed an emotional stressor task while cardiac reactivity was measured. At Wave 2, children completed a depression questionnaire as well as a performance challenge task while cardiac reactivity was measured. Results showed that cardiac under-reactivity to the emotional stressor at Wave 1 was associated concurrently and prospectively with greater depressive symptom severity. However, Wave 2 depressive symptoms were not significantly associated with Wave 2 reactivity to the performance stressor and Wave 1 depressive symptoms were marginally associated with Wave 2 reactivity. Additional research on emotion reactivity and depressive symptoms in middle childhood is needed; preliminarily, our results suggest that children who exhibit under-reactivity to sadness may benefit from interventions to reduce or prevent the development of clinically-significant depressive symptoms during middle childhood. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Emotion reactivity nationallicence Depression nationallicence Rumination nationallicence Middle childhood nationallicence Somers Jennifer Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut Borelli Jessica Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut Smiley Patricia Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut West Jessica Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA aut Hilt Lori Lawrence University, 711 E Boldt Way, 54911, Appleton, WI, USA aut Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 692-704 0882-2689 37:4<692 2015 37 10862 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9491-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Somers Jennifer Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Borelli Jessica Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smiley Patricia Pomona College, 647 N College Way, 91711, Claremont, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- West Jessica Duke University, 27708, Durham, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hilt Lori Lawrence University, 711 E Boldt Way, 54911, Appleton, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2015-12-01), 692-704 0882-2689 37:4<692 2015 37 10862