Chronic Stress Burden Predicts Depressive Symptom Severity Independent of Subjective and Psychophysiological Indices of Emotion Dysregulation

Chronic stress exposure is robustly associated with risk for depressive disorders in community and patient samples. In this study, we reproduce that association using gold-standard interview assessments of chronic stress burden, and we find that subjective and electrodermal responses to emotional cues do not mediate this effect.