Excessive Reassurance Seeking: Delineating a Risk Factor Involved in the Development of Depressive Symptoms
@article{Joiner2001ExcessiveRS, title={Excessive Reassurance Seeking: Delineating a Risk Factor Involved in the Development of Depressive Symptoms}, author={Thomas E. Joiner and Gerald I. Metalsky}, journal={Psychological Science}, year={2001}, volume={12}, pages={371 - 378} }
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…
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