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08-04-2017

Party Pooper or Life of the Party: Dampening and Enhancing of Positive Affect in a Peer Context

Auteurs: Margot Bastin, Sabine Nelis, Filip Raes, Michael W. Vasey, Patricia Bijttebier

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 2/2018

Abstract

Dampening and enhancing responses to positive affect have been linked to depressive symptoms. The main aim of the present study was to examine such responses in an interpersonal peer context and to examine their relation with depressive symptoms. A community sample of 665 seventh-graders (52.0% girls, Mage = 12.7 years) took part in the study. Using a newly developed questionnaire, the Co-Dampening and Co-Enhancing Questionnaire (CoDEQ), a two-factor model distinguishing co-dampening and co-enhancing was validated. Relations with general depressive symptoms, anhedonic symptoms, and friendship quality were investigated. The direction of relations was examined over a 1-year interval using cross-lagged analyses. Cross-sectional results revealed that higher levels of co-dampening and lower levels of co-enhancing were associated with more depressive and anhedonic symptoms, while controlling for co-rumination levels. For anhedonic symptoms, this pattern also held over and above intrapersonal dampening and enhancing. Friendship quality was related to higher concurrent levels of co-enhancing and lower levels of co-dampening. The longitudinal results pointed towards a scar model, in that both depressive and anhedonic symptoms predicted relative increases in co-dampening over time; however, this did not hold in a model in which dampening and enhancing were included as control variables.

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Where needed, the t-test was adjusted for unequal variances

Analyses were rerun without the inclusion of drop-ins at follow-up. Values of coefficients did not change considerably and significance levels remained the same.

Following a suggestion of a reviewer, we conducted a post-hoc principal component analysis on our data. This analysis pointed towards two components, which were completely conform the intended co-dampening and co-enhancing constructs (cf., confirmatory factor analysis).

To be able to interpret the fit of the models, nonsignificant paths of the control variables were trimmed. Fit of the trimmed models indicated excellent fit to the data, with p-values of χ²-test >0.05, RMSEA ranging from 0.00 to 0.02, CFI = 1.00, and SRMR ranging from 0.01 to 0.02. All paths of the fully saturated models remained robust. Two additional paths emerged: For anhedonia, higher levels of co-enhancing were predictive of relative decreases in anhedonic symptoms in the model including both co-rumination and gender as covariates, β = −0.09, p = 0.04. In the models in which nonsignificant control paths were omitted, depressive and anhedonic symptoms remained predictive of future levels of co-dampening, also in the models including both dampening and enhancing, β = 0.11, p = 0.01 and β = 0.12, p = 0.03, respectively.

We thank an anonymous reviewer for this interesting suggestion.

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Titel: Party Pooper or Life of the Party: Dampening and Enhancing of Positive Affect in a Peer Context
Auteurs: Margot Bastin
Sabine Nelis
Filip Raes
Michael W. Vasey
Patricia Bijttebier
Publicatiedatum: 08-04-2017
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 2/2018
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-017-0296-3

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