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Emotional Abuse, Verbal Victimization, and the Development of Children’s Negative Inferential Styles and Depressive Symptoms

Auteurs: Brandon E. Gibb, John R. Z. Abela

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 2/2008

Abstract

Given evidence that negative inferential styles contribute vulnerability to both symptoms and diagnoses of depression, it becomes important to examine factors that may contribute to the development of this cognitive vulnerability. The primary goal of the current studies was to test the hypotheses that experiences of emotional abuse from parents and verbal victimization from peers would contribute to negative changes in children’s inferential styles as well as increases in their depressive symptoms. We found support for these hypotheses among children of parents with a history of depression (Study 1) and among an unselected community sample of children (Study 2). These results add to the growing body of research suggesting the role of emotional abuse and verbal victimization in the development of depressive cognitions and symptoms.

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In contrast to the reformulated theory of learned helplessness (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978), which defined cognitive vulnerability as the tendency to attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global causes, the hopelessness theory focuses on the stability and globality dimensions and de-emphasizes the internality dimension of causal attributions. Although the hopelessness theory does hypothesize that the tendency to infer negative self-characteristics following the occurrence of negative events will also increase risk for depression, this is distinct from making internal attributions for the causes of events. Specifically, inferences regarding self-characteristics focus specifically on the consequences of the event, not its causes.

We should note that the pattern of results reported below was identical to that obtained when the analyses were limited to participants with complete data.

The pattern of results reported below was identical to that obtained when the analyses were limited to participants with complete data.

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Titel: Emotional Abuse, Verbal Victimization, and the Development of Children’s Negative Inferential Styles and Depressive Symptoms
Auteurs: Brandon E. Gibb
John R. Z. Abela
Publicatiedatum: 01-04-2008
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9106-x

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