In our current project, we investigate an interpersonal form of rumination known as co-rumination. Co-rumination is a process where friends repeatedly discuss their problems and dwell on their negative feelings. While both co-rumination and rumination are associated with higher depressive and anxiety symptoms, only co-rumination is linked to better friendship quality.
Research suggests that underlying positive beliefs about the benefits of rumination (e.g. the belief that rumination may help the individual find answers to their depression) and negative beliefs about the drawbacks of rumination (e.g. the belief that rumination is uncontrollable) may maintain the ruminative process. Likewise, we hypothesize that people hold similar positive and negative beliefs about co-rumination, affecting the likelihood, frequency, and intensity that they engage in this process.
During this project, we are developing a scale that assesses people’s beliefs about co-rumination. We plan to use this scale to study how these beliefs influence co-rumination and its related outcomes, including depression and anxiety.
Publications and Presentations
Modell, J., Mears, A. M., Zhao, K., Lee, R., Daffre, C., & Papadakis, A. A. (2024, April). From Brooding to Reflection: Differential Associations Between Co-Rumination Subtypes and Anxiety in College Students [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA, United States. (link)
Modell, J., Lee, R., Zhao, K., Mears, A. M., Daffre, C., & Papadakis, A. A. (2023, November). Beyond the Negative: The Moderating Role of Problem-Solving Beliefs on the Association Between Co-rumination and Anxiety in College Students [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention. Seattle, WA, United States. (link)
Mears, A. M., Daffre, C., Modell, J., Grahn, M., & Papadakis, A. A. (2023, May). Preliminary Factor Analysis on the Beliefs about Co-Rumination Scale [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Washington, D.C, United States. (link)
Mears, A. M., Modell, J., Grahn, M., Reiger, J., Lesser, T. L., Scafaria, M., Cilia, A., Franco, E., Daffre, C., & Papadakis, A. A. (2022, April). Ranting vs. Reflection: Co-rumination Subtypes Differentially Predict Depressive Symptoms and Friendship Closeness [Poster presentation]. Day of Undergraduate Research in Engineering, Arts, Medicine, and the Sciences, Virtual. (link)
Cilia, A., Scafaria, M., Rieger, J., Grahn, M., Lesser, T., & Papadakis, A. A. (2021, November). Neuroticism Moderates the Association between Co-Brooding and Friendship Closeness in College Students [Poster presentation]. Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood Conference, Virtual. (link)
Lesser, T., Scafaria, M., Rieger, J., Cilia, A., Grahn, M., Franco, E., Daffre, C., & Papadakis, A. A. (2021, November). Co-Brooding and Co-Reflection Differentially Predict Depressive Symptoms and Friendship Closeness in College Students [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New Orleans, LA, United States. (link)
Franco, E., Daffre, C., Ma, Q., Fajer, H., Lesser, T., Cilia, A., Scafaria, M., Song, Y., & Papadakis, A. (2020, November). Co-rumination and beliefs about co-rumination in college students: Tradeoffs between friendship closeness and depressive symptoms [Poster presentation]. Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA, United States. (link)
Papadakis, A. A., McGlaughlin, M., & **Daffre, C. (2020, January). A hybrid course structure to add discussion sections to large psychology courses with limited staff and time. Poster presented at the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.
Daffre, C., Papadakis, A. A., & Perry-Parrish C. (2018, November). Parental guilt and posttraumatic stress symptoms influence child quality of life following burn injury. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC.
Tobin, K. E., Daffre, C., Song, Y., & Papadakis, A. A. (2018, November). Past economic stress, problem orientation, and problem-solving skills predict depression and anxiety symptoms in college students. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, DC. (link)
Daffre, C., Tobin, K. E., Ma, Q., & Papadakis, A. A. (2017, November). Associations among past economic stress, problem-solving orientation, coping style, depression, and anxiety in college students. Poster presented at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood, Washington, DC. (link)
Papadakis, A. A., Lin, C. S., Oh, S., Moreno-Megui, A. M., & Kotchick, B. A. (2016, November). Brooding rumination, reflection, and problem solving as mediators of the association between peer victimization and social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Poster presented at the 50th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), New York, NY. (link)
Lin, C. S., Papadakis, A. A., Moreno-Megui, A. M., Oh, S., & Kotchick, B. A. (2016, March). Associations among coping responses to peer victimization and social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. (link)
Yang, E., Papadakis, A. A., Prenoveau, J. M, & Mendelson, T. (2016, March). Stress, rumination, mindfulness, and depression in over-aged, under-credited urban youth. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. (link)