Specifically, the report focuses primarily on the mechanisms that contribute to a negative perceptual set that is characterized by negative appraisals of one's life situations and of one's ability to cope with life's challenges and by negative repetitive thoughts (e.g.,
ruminative thinking), all of which can lead to depression and suicidal ideation.
Items produce four subscales:
Ruminative Responses, Distracting Responses, Problem-Solving, and Dangerous Activities.
"Post-punk" quickly became a term so broad as to be nearly meaningless, and Joy Division's particular brand was unusually dark,
ruminative, and at times frankly despairing.
MANUEL MUNOZ'S ESSAY, "Wish You Were Here" (Fall issue), is exactly the kind of piece that distinguishes your magazine from all other travel magazines--a
ruminative, thoughtful, resonant look at the meaning of travel.
Some of her essays, like "Sugar Eggs: A Reverie," are
ruminative lists; others, like "The Smallest Woman in the World," are affecting anecdotes; and others still, like "Autopsy Report," are strange considerations.
Nolen-Hoeksema (1994) proposed that women are more likely to engage in
ruminative coping strategies than are men.
The Culture Code is not a major work of social psychology, as it turns out, but a gregarious,
ruminative professional memoir, offering here and there real insight into the character of our frenetic consumer culture.
You can take a
ruminative pull at your pint of Whippet Molester without hearing so much as a peep from Old Josh or Fred The Burglar as to which horse will be led back in triumph on Friday, March 17.
Ruminative blogs, especially on the topic of architecture, can be tedious beyond imagination.
Smokers have always preferred a less hectic, more
ruminative lifestyle, perfectly suited for the home with the television turned off and the windows wide open.
Or Harris's settled,
ruminative poise may come from her almost total absorption of African American literature that she uses throughout the book to illustrate a point or to support a position.
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao, 2002), Jia Zhangke's latest feature film, is a poetic,
ruminative drama about two young drifters (first-time actors Wu Qiong as Xiao Ji and Zhao Weiwei as Binbin) and a professional dancer (Platform's Zhao Tao as Qiaoqiao) mired in a provincial backwater.