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Front Psychol. 2017 Sep 12;8:1446. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01446. eCollection 2017.

Long-Term Associations of Justice Sensitivity, Rejection Sensitivity, and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents.

Frontiers in psychology

Rebecca Bondü, Fidan Sahyazici-Knaak, Günter Esser

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of KonstanzKonstanz, Germany.
  2. Department of Psychology, University of PotsdamPotsdam, Germany.

PMID: 28955257 PMCID: PMC5601073 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01446

Abstract

Depressive symptoms have been related to anxious rejection sensitivity, but little is known about relations with angry rejection sensitivity and justice sensitivity. We measured rejection sensitivity, justice sensitivity, and depressive symptoms in 1,665 9-to-21-year olds at two points of measurement. Participants with high T1 levels of depressive symptoms reported higher anxious and angry rejection sensitivity and higher justice sensitivity than controls at T1 and T2. T1 rejection, but not justice sensitivity predicted T2 depressive symptoms; high victim justice sensitivity, however, added to the stabilization of depressive symptoms. T1 depressive symptoms positively predicted T2 anxious and angry rejection and victim justice sensitivity. Hence, sensitivity toward negative social cues may be cause and consequence of depressive symptoms and requires consideration in cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression.

Keywords: adolescence; childhood; depressive symptoms; justice sensitivity; rejection sensitivity

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