Research showed that dependent personality traits have a significant role in the development of depression. The existence of dependent behaviors and cognitions causes social rejection or interpersonal loss to produce more intense feelings of depression than they would normally do. There can be a reactive as well as an evocative element to this relationship. Individuals with dependent personalities would respond to social rejection and interpersonal loss with strong feelings of unhappiness, anguish, and hopelessness. Dependent personality traits such as extreme reassurance-seeking, fixation with worries of loss, clinging, and neediness can induce disengagement and rejection by other people which thus leads to the depressive emotions mentioned earlier.