Socioemotional Dynamics of Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms: A Person-Specific Network Approach

Figure 4

Model implied associations between log recovery time of sadness and depressive symptoms (CESD). (a) shows the between-person association: individuals with longer recovery time have higher level of depressive symptoms. (b) shows the prototypical within-person association (black line), the extent of between-person differences in the within-person association (gray lines), and how the within-person association was moderated by level of life events. For an individual with low life events (-1 SD, red line) there was no within-person association between recovery time and depressive symptoms, while for an individual with high life events (+1 SD, blue line), burst increases in recovery time were accompanied by more depressive symptoms.

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