Depression and Cognitive Style: Comparisons Between Measures

Several instruments have been developed recently to measure cognitive styles associated with depression. At least four of them appear to have an underlying similarity. Each appears to reflect a tendency for respondents to infer a general lack of self-worth (or a continued likelihood of bad events) o...

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Published in:Journal of personality and social psychology 1985-09, Vol.49 (3), p.722-728
Main Authors: Carver, Charles S, Ganellen, Ronald J, Behar-Mitrani, Victoria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adjustment Disorders - psychology
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Cognitive Style
Depression (Emotion)
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Generalization (Psychology)
Human
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Nosology. Terminology. Diagnostic criteria
Personality Measures
Psychological Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Self Concept
Set (Psychology)
Techniques and methods
Test Reliability
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Summary:Several instruments have been developed recently to measure cognitive styles associated with depression. At least four of them appear to have an underlying similarity. Each appears to reflect a tendency for respondents to infer a general lack of self-worth (or a continued likelihood of bad events) on the basis of a single discrete failure. The present research was a comparative test of one of these scales against the other three in terms of associations with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores. Though all instruments were significantly correlated with BDI, partial correlations revealed that our generalization scale was a more robust predictor of BDI than were (a) a measure of characterological self-blame, (b) a measure of cognitive bias, and (c) a measure of attributional style.
ISSN:0022-3514
1939-1315
DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.49.3.722