@article{ref1,
title="Excessive reassurance seeking: delineating a risk factor involved in the development of depressive symptoms",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2001",
author="Joiner, T. E. and Metalsky, Gerald I.",
volume="12",
number="5",
pages="371-378",
abstract="Six studies investigated (a) the construct validity of reassurance seeking and (b) reassurance seeking as a specific vulnerability factor for depressive symptoms. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that reassurance seeking is a reasonably cohesive, replicable, and valid construct, discernible from related interpersonal variables. Study 3 demonstrated that reassurance seeking displayed diagnostic specificity to depression, whereas other interpersonal variables did not, in a sample of clinically diagnosed participants. Study 4 prospectively assessed a group of initially symptom-free participants, and showed that those who developed future depressive symptoms (as compared with those who remained symptom-free) obtained elevated reassurance-seeking scores at baseline, when all participants were symptom-free, but did not obtain elevated scores on other interpersonal variables. Studies 5 and 6 indicate that reassurance seeking predicts future depressive reactions to stress. Taken together, the six studies support the construct validity of reassurance seeking, as well as its potential role as a specific vulnerability factor for depression.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}