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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2003): |
Individualized measurement of irrational beliefs in remitted depressives.
Full Abstract
Recent reviews of cognitive theories of depression have noted that individualized assessment strategies might help to resolve mixed findings regarding the stability of depressotypic beliefs and attitudes. We describe encouraging results for an individualized measure of one such cognitive construct, irrational beliefs. Twenty depression-prone women (recurrent major depressives in full remission) and twenty closely matched never-depressed controls completed leading forced-choice measures of irrational beliefs (the Belief Scale; BS) and sociotropy-autonomy (The Revised Personal Style Inventory), as well as the Specific Demands on Self Scale (SDS). The BS requires participants to rate their agreement with twenty preselected statements of irrational beliefs, while the SDS focuses on whether participants harbor any strongly held irrational beliefs, even if uncommon or idiosyncratic. Consistent with previous research, there were no group differences on the traditional measure of irrational beliefs. In contrast, depression-prone participants strongly exceeded controls on the SDS, and this difference persisted after controlling for residual depression, anxiety symptoms, anxiety diagnoses, sociotropy, and autonomy. These findings provide some initial support for a key assumption of the rational-emotive model of depression, and, more broadly, suggest that individualized assessment strategies may help researchers capture the core negative beliefs of asymptomatic individuals, even in the absence of mood or cognitive priming.Copyright 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 59: 439-455, 2003.
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Author information
Author/s: Solomon, Ari (A); Arnow, Bruce A (BA); Gotlib, Ian H (IH); Wind, Brian (B);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA. asolomon(-atsign-)williams.edu
Grants: MH 19938 (Agency:United States NIMH) ; MH59259 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of clinical psychology (J Clin Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 59 (issue 4) : pp 439-55
Dates: Created 2003/03/24; Completed 2003/07/02; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12652636, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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