Heijnen, Nikki (2023) Stress Generation Hypothesis in Internalizing Psychopathology: A Review. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Much research has gone into how stress is involved in the development of internalizing psychopathology. Hammen (1991) posed a different view that depressed individuals are actively involved in creating stressful situations, which would subsequently influence the depressive symptoms. This was named the Stress Generation Hypothesis. Since the publication of this original view, many researchers have studied this hypothesis in depression, and expanded it to other internalizing disorders such as anxiety and eating disorders. Some researchers even moved beyond the original definition and searched for possible underlying vulnerabilities that accounted this stress generation effect. The current study reviewed a number of articles investigating the stress generation hypothesis and found that there is overall evidence for the stress generation hypothesis in depressed individuals, with depressive symptoms remaining on of the strongest predictors of stress generation. Furthermore, there was also some evidence for other internalizing disorders, but the results were more mixed and seem to point towards other underlying mechanisms. Various pre-existing, personality, cognitive, and interpersonal vulnerabilities were identified. Sex differences were also found, but this needs to gain more attention in future studies. The direct behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physiological stress responses lack in research and future research should include ecological momentary assessments to gain more insight into the specific actions of individual that cause stress generation. Untangling the specific components of stress generation can help establish a comprehensive model of the relationship between stress and internalizing disorders that can direct future intervention development. Keywords: Stress generation hypothesis, internalizing psychopathology, vulnerabilities, stress responses, dependent events, independent events
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Jonge, P. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Ontwikkelingspsychologie (O) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2023 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2023 09:35 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2866 |
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