Perceiving social pressure not to feel negative predicts depressive symptoms in daily life

Depression and Anxiety
Egon DejonckheerePeter Kuppens

Abstract

Western societies often overemphasize the pursuit of happiness, and regard negative feelings such as sadness or anxiety as maladaptive and unwanted. Despite this emphasis on happiness, the amount of people suffering from depressive complaints is remarkably high. To explain this apparent paradox, we examined whether experiencing social pressure not to feel sad or anxious could in fact contribute to depressive symptoms. A sample of individuals (n = 112) with elevated depression scores (Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9] ≥ 10) took part in an online daily diary study in which they rated their depressive symptoms and perceived social pressure not to feel depressed or anxious for 30 consecutive days. Using multilevel VAR models, we investigated the temporal relation between this perceived social pressure and depressive symptoms to determine directionality. Primary analyses consistently indicated that experiencing social pressure predicts increases in both overall severity scores and most individual symptoms of depression, but not vice versa. A set of secondary analyses, in which we adopted a network perspective on depression, confirmed these findings. Using this approach, centrality analysis revealed that perceived social pressure...Continue Reading

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Oct 17, 2017·Personality and Social Psychology Review : an Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc·June De VausBrock Bastian
Apr 17, 2019·Nature Human Behaviour·Egon DejonckheereFrancis Tuerlinckx
Jun 2, 2018·World Psychiatry : Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)·Inez Myin-GermeysUlrich Reininghaus
Jan 22, 2019·Multivariate Behavioral Research·Lijuan WangC S Bergeman
Apr 29, 2020·Nature Human Behaviour·Egon DejonckheereFrancis Tuerlinckx
Apr 17, 2020·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Elise K KalokerinosBrock Bastian
Jun 14, 2020·Social Science & Medicine·Sarah Atkinson
Feb 4, 2021·Brain Sciences·Juan Sánchez-Fernández, Luis-Alberto Casado-Aranda
Mar 20, 2019·Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics·Alba ContrerasCarmelo Vazquez

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