Abstract
This study investigated the interrelationship of thought control strategies, thought suppression, and rumination in depression. Participants with current (n = 52) and remitted (n = 36) major depression, and never-depressed control participants (n = 49) completed measures that indexed symptoms of depression and a range of thought control techniques including rumination, worry, and thought suppression. Following recent commentaries on the White Bear Suppression Inventory, we differentiated between those items that indexed thought intrusions and those that indexed thought suppression. After controlling for current depression severity, we found: (a) a significant positive association between worry, thought intrusions and rumination, consistent with recent proposals of a common construct of repetitive thought; (b) that thought suppression positively correlated with rumination and the thought control strategies of distraction and punishment; and (c) a lack of any relationship between other thought control strat...
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