Executive control under stress: Relation to reappraisal ability and depressive symptoms
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Participants
Seventy-six participants were recruited using advertisements posted around campus and received money in exchange for participation. Our previous research predicting depressive symptoms from executive control under stress demonstrated an effect of moderate magnitude, f2 = 0.11 (Quinn & Joormann, 2015a). Results of a power analysis (Faul, Erdfelder, Lang, & Buchner, 2007) indicate that a sample of 74 participants would yield an 80% chance of detecting similar effects, with five predictors and
Group characteristics
Participants who did not complete follow-up questionnaire measures did not significantly differ from participants included in analyses on demographic characteristics or baseline depressive symptoms (see Table 1). Participants in study conditions did not significantly differ on demographic characteristics or other study variables (see Table 2). See Table 3 for correlations among study variables by condition.
Stress induction manipulation checks
Cortisol and sAA distributions in this dataset were positively skewed. Cortisol and sAA
Discussion
The present study examined whether executive control measured under conditions of acute stress was associated with reappraisal ability and predicted symptoms of depression in a longitudinal follow-up. Executive control under stress, but not a measure of executive control obtained under non-stressful conditions, prospectively predicted depressive symptoms during a stressful period of life. Executive control under stress also was associated with ability to use reappraisal to down-regulate
Funding
This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health [grant number T32 MH018921].
Declaration of competing interest
None.
Author declaration
We wish to confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Meghan E. Quinn: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft. Jutta Joormann: Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing.
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