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Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Children: An Idiographic, Longitudinal Examination of Inferential Styles

Auteurs: Joseph R. Cohen, Jami F. Young, John R. Z. Abela

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 6/2012

Abstract

The present study examined the applicability of the hopelessness theory in children in the third grade. Participants included 206 students (111 boys and 95 girls) whose average age was 8.47 (SD = 0.56) years. Participants completed self-report measures assessing inferential styles at baseline, and negative events and depressive symptoms six times over a 7 weeks period. Results showed that depressogenic inferential styles concerning the self interacted with negative events to predict depressive symptoms during the follow-up, and that depressogenic inferential style for causes did not. These findings are believed to help resolve past controversy concerning inferential styles by suggesting that depressogenic inferential styles predict depressive symptoms even at a young age. Methodological and clinical implications from the present study are discussed.

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In addition to an idiographic approach to conceptualizing negative events a nomothetic (between subject) approach was also examined for all analyses in the present study. The difference between these two approaches is that a nomothetic approach utilizes either raw or group-mean centered scores to operationalize negative events. Past studies on youth have also utilized a nomothetic approach when testing the vulnerability stress component of the hopelessness theory (e.g. Gibb and Alloy 2006). For the present study, all vulnerability stress hypotheses were non-significant when utilizing a nomothetic approach (p > 0.05). Support for an idiographic, as opposed to nomothetic, approach found in the present study is consistent with a large corpus of literature specific to hopelessness theory (see Abela and McGirr 2007) and vulnerability stress theories in general (see Abela and Hankin 2008 for further discussion).

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.

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Titel: Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in Children: An Idiographic, Longitudinal Examination of Inferential Styles
Auteurs: Joseph R. Cohen
Jami F. Young
John R. Z. Abela
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-011-9431-6

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