01524nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002500118653002000143653001200163653002400175653002600199653001800225653001500243100002900258700002700287245012400314300001000438490000700448520079900455022001401254020001401268       2011                            d  c01/2011bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aadolescent attitudes10aage differences10aarticle10aDepressive symptoms10ahuman sex differences10apsychometrics10arumination1 aPatricia Padilla Paredes1 aEsther Calvete Zumalde00aRumination, gender and depressive symptoms in adolescents: Adaptation of the Ruminative Scale of the CRSS Questionnaire  a51-610 v173 aThis study is based on the Response Style Theory (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1987, 1991). The aims were to adapt the ruminative responses scale of the Children s Response Styles Scale (CRSS; Ziegert & Kistner, 2002) to Spanish adolescents and to test whether gender differences in the components of rumination (brooding and reflection) account for the higher scores in depression among girls. A total of 1188 adolescents (544 girls and 644 boys), aged between 12 and 18 years, completed the ruminative response scale and a measure of depressive symptoms (CES-D; Radloff, 1977). The factor analysis confirmed the two factor model and presented good internal consistency. Finally, the results showed that gender differences in reflection partially explained the higher depressive scores of adolescent girls.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437