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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHAME, RUMINATION AND DEPRESSION

217 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHAME, RUMINATION AND DEPRESSION Nives Radonjić, Ivana Marčinko  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia In contemporary psychological literature, the psychoanalytic interpretations of depression are less prominent. However, early psychoanalytic theories give a valuable understanding of this psychopathological condition suggesting shame being at the core of a depressive state of mind. To examine the validity of these theoretical stances, the goal of the study was to investigate the relationship between shame and depression and to evaluate a potential mediating role of rumination in this association. In this study, 310 participants took part, of which 136 (43.9%) males and 174 (56.1%) females. The average age of subjects was M=20.67 (SD=2.24), ranging from 18 to 40. Shame was measured by Differential Emotions Scale (Izard, Libero, Putnam and Haynes, 1993) Shame subscale. Depression was assessed by The New Multidimensional Depression Scale (Cheung and Power, 2012) while rumination was measured with Ruminative Responses Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema and Morrow, 1991). Regression analyses were used to investigate the contribution of shame to depression and to test the mediating role of rumination in that association. The results have shown that shame directly contributes to depression, explaining 33, 6% of this variable. Rumination was confirmed as the mediator of this relationship. Considering the proportion of variance explained in depression by shame one can conclude that shame plays an important role in the etiology of depression. Also, establishing rumination in the role of mediator of that relationship gave insight into a mechanism of how shame gives rise to depressive symptoms.

shame, rumination, depression

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