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This search engine will let you explore the over 1800 theses written in Honors at The University of Maine since the Program’s inception in 1935. You may search our thesis archives based on any of the fields listed above. If the thesis is available at the Reynolds Library (Thomson Honors Center) or Fogler Library (Special Collections), the information will appear below the bibliographic data. At last count, we had about 1800 theses in the Reynolds Library.
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Adaptation of the Beaver (Castor Canadensis) to a River Environment
Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Co-Rumination, and Friendship: A Longitudinal, Observational Study
Author:
Raegan
Harrington
Major: Psychology Graduation Year: 2020 Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Schwartz-Mette
Description of Publication:
Depressive symptoms and positive friendship quality are typically inversely correlated across numerous past studies, with most studies involving only two time points. At the same time, co-rumination (Rose, 2002), the mutually encouraged, speculative, repetitive, and negatively focused discussion of problems between friends, has been linked to increased depressive symptoms and increased friendship quality concurrently and over time (Calmes & Roberts, 2008; Rose et al., 2007, 2014). Yet unclear is how co-rumination impacts associations of depressive symptoms and friendship quality over time and the nature of these relations over more than two time points. Additionally, understudied are observations of co-rumination, with only one published study presenting observed co-rumination data. The current study assessed 93 same-gender friendship dyads (N = 186) involving three self-report survey assessments (baseline, 3 months, 6 months) and one observed dyadic interaction task. Results indicated that initial friendship quality is predictive of increased depressive symptoms, which then predict increased friendship problems over time for both boys and girls. Interestingly, co-rumination did not impact depressive symptoms or friendship quality when self-reports were considered, but observed co-rumination mediated longitudinal relations of positive friendship quality and depressive symptoms over 3 and 6 months, specifically for boys. Clinical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umtraining.lv-o-wpc-dev.its.maine.edu/honors/600/
Major: Psychology Graduation Year: 2020 Thesis Advisor: Rebecca Schwartz-Mette
Description of Publication:
Depressive symptoms and positive friendship quality are typically inversely correlated across numerous past studies, with most studies involving only two time points. At the same time, co-rumination (Rose, 2002), the mutually encouraged, speculative, repetitive, and negatively focused discussion of problems between friends, has been linked to increased depressive symptoms and increased friendship quality concurrently and over time (Calmes & Roberts, 2008; Rose et al., 2007, 2014). Yet unclear is how co-rumination impacts associations of depressive symptoms and friendship quality over time and the nature of these relations over more than two time points. Additionally, understudied are observations of co-rumination, with only one published study presenting observed co-rumination data. The current study assessed 93 same-gender friendship dyads (N = 186) involving three self-report survey assessments (baseline, 3 months, 6 months) and one observed dyadic interaction task. Results indicated that initial friendship quality is predictive of increased depressive symptoms, which then predict increased friendship problems over time for both boys and girls. Interestingly, co-rumination did not impact depressive symptoms or friendship quality when self-reports were considered, but observed co-rumination mediated longitudinal relations of positive friendship quality and depressive symptoms over 3 and 6 months, specifically for boys. Clinical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
Location of Publication:
URL to Thesis: https://digitalcommons.library.umtraining.lv-o-wpc-dev.its.maine.edu/honors/600/