Gender Moderates the Mediation Effects of Some Repetitive Negative Thinking in the Relations Between Neuroticism and Both Depression and Anxiety

We studied gendered moderation of the mediation effects of repetitive negative thinking (self-blame and venting), in the neuroticism – depression and neuroticism – anxiety relations in 189 undergraduates. In the preceding relations self-blame was a mediator only in women, but venting was a mediator in both men and women.