This difference is expected as women tend to have closer relationships with fewer friends and show more disclosure. This gender difference is pronounced in adolescence when life for girls becomes more complex presenting more material for co-rumination, whereas boys have less intimate friendships and are often taught to keep in their emotions. Studies often support that co-rumination leads to both increased friendship quality and closeness in the dyadic pair, as well as increased amounts of internalizing symptoms of depression and anxiety (Rose, 2002; Rose, Carlson, & Waller, 2007). While these outcomes seem to contradict each other it is proposed that co-rumination’s unique combination of both self-disclosure and rumination may offer some explanation. These separate constructs and their contributions to the outcomes co-rumination will be discussed in detail
This difference is expected as women tend to have closer relationships with fewer friends and show more disclosure. This gender difference is pronounced in adolescence when life for girls becomes more complex presenting more material for co-rumination, whereas boys have less intimate friendships and are often taught to keep in their emotions. Studies often support that co-rumination leads to both increased friendship quality and closeness in the dyadic pair, as well as increased amounts of internalizing symptoms of depression and anxiety (Rose, 2002; Rose, Carlson, & Waller, 2007). While these outcomes seem to contradict each other it is proposed that co-rumination’s unique combination of both self-disclosure and rumination may offer some explanation. These separate constructs and their contributions to the outcomes co-rumination will be discussed in detail