Perfectionism, Negative Thinking, Burnout, and Dispositional Acceptance, Differentially Mediated the Threat/Challenge Appraisal – Depression Symptom Severity Relationships across Generational Status in Undergraduates.

In U.S. undergraduates, perfectionistic dissatisfaction, perseverative negative thinking (PNT), burnout, and dispositional acceptance, fully mediated the threat appraisal - depression severity relationship across generational status, but test anxiety and dispositional nonjudging were nonsignificant. Only perfectionistic dissatisfaction, PNT, and burnout, fully mediated the challenge appraisal – depression relationship across generational status.