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01-08-2011 | Brief Report

After Further Deliberation: Cognitive Vulnerability Predicts Changes in Event-Specific Negative Inferences for a Poor Midterm Grade

Auteur: Gerald J. Haeffel

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 4/2011

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Abstract

According to the hopelessness theory of depression (Psychological Review 96:358–372, 1989), individuals with a cognitive vulnerability are at risk for depression because they generate event-specific negative inferences for stressful life events. Although prior studies have found an association between cognitive vulnerability and event-specific negative inferences, conclusions from these studies have been limited by weak correlations and a failure to examine how event-specific inferences change over time. The current study attempted to reconcile and extend prior work using a midterm design (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 43:612–617, 1982, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52:386–393, 1987, Journal of Abnormal Psychology 102:101–109, 1993). Participants’ event-specific negative inferences for a poor midterm grade were assessed at three time points during a 1-week prospective interval. Consistent with hypotheses, results showed that, if given enough time, the relationship between cognitive vulnerability and event-specific negative inferences becomes robust. Further, event-specific negative inferences on day 3, but not initial event-specific negative inferences, predicted increases in depressive symptoms over the prospective interval. The implications of these results for the cognitive theories of depression are discussed.
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Meng’s approach is used for a single sample of participants where each correlation is between a common variable (in this case, the CSQ at baseline) and two different variables (in this case, the PIQ at time 1 and PIQ at time 7).
 
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It is important to note that this pattern of results does not appear to be due to measurement proximity (i.e., day 3 is closer in time to day 7 than is day 1). The CSQ achievement subscale (administered at the most distal time point from day 7) was also a significant predictor of depressive symptoms on day 7 after controlling for baseline levels of depressive symptoms (P = .02).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
After Further Deliberation: Cognitive Vulnerability Predicts Changes in Event-Specific Negative Inferences for a Poor Midterm Grade
Auteur
Gerald J. Haeffel
Publicatiedatum
01-08-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-010-9298-y

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