%0 Journal Article
%T The Impact of a Need for Closure and Support Quality on Verbal and Cognitive Brooding
%A Amanda Denes
%A Anne Merrill
%A Samantha Coveleski
%A Sharde Davis
%A Tamara D. Afifi
%J Communication Research
%@ 1552-3810
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0093650216644018
%X This study examined whether a need for closure explains why people verbally brood and whether the support received when they verbally brood during a conversation reduces anxiety and cognitive brooding afterward. In two studies, friends came into the laboratory and were randomly assigned to be a subject or confederate. The confederate was trained to provide ˇ°good supportˇ± or ˇ°poor supportˇ± to the subject who talked about a stressor he or she could not stop thinking and talking about recently with that friend. The overall models suggested that individuals were more likely to verbally brood when they had a higher need for closure and were more likely to feel better and positively reframe the stressor when the friend was supportive rather than unsupportive, which reduced anxiety. However, if individuals did feel better and/or positively reframed their stressor, even if they received ˇ°poor support,ˇ± it reduced their anxiety. Finally, positive reframing of the stressor, rather than simply feeling better, helped subjects reduce their cognitive brooding 20 minutes after the conversation
%K need for closure
%K verbal brooding
%K brooding rumination
%K friendship
%K co-rumination
%K anxiety
%K satisfaction
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0093650216644018