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This study adopted an interpersonal perspective, examining how individual differences in the value attached to agency (getting ahead) and communion (getting along) explain variability in depressive experiences. Specifically, we explored whether these individual differences explain what kind of situations can feed into depression and whether, together with the frustration of these dimensions, they can help explain the heterogeneity in types of depressive experience, behaviors, and symptoms. In this preregistered study, 510 participants prescreened for depressive symptoms reported negative affect in response to vignettes depicting agentic and communal frustration, and completed questionnaires on value attached to and frustration of agency and communion, types of depressive experiences, behaviors, and depressive symptoms. 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