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Originally Posted by AGDee
As happens frequently, they are assuming a cause-effect relationship when it is probably a correlation. Perhaps the girls who are co-ruminating the most have the worst/most serious problems and issues which are going to cause depression/anxiety. A kid with relatively no stressors is not likely to become anxious and depressed and wouldn't have much to co-ruminate about. I do agree that having kids involved in "healthy" activities helps them cope. We frequently had kids in treatment who we tried to get involved in a lot of activities because it helped them get away from their psycho families who were causing them stress.
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Or it could be that those girls that are depressed/anxious have a more negative/pessimistic personality and therefore complain more. Whereas, someone who is always optomistic is probably not going to do much complaining.