“’Thanks for Sharing That’: Ruminators and Their Social Support Networks”, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Christopher G. Davis1999 (anxiety)⁠:

Receiving positive social support after a trauma generally is related to better adjustment to the trauma. The personality of trauma survivors may affect the extent to which they seek social support, their perceived receipt of social support, and the extent to which they benefit from social support.

The authors hypothesized that people with a ruminative coping style, who tended to focus excessively on their own emotional reactions to a trauma, compared to those without a ruminative coping style, would seek more social support, and would benefit more from social support, but would report receiving less social support.

These hypotheses were confirmed in a longitudinal study of people who lost a loved one to a terminal illness.

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