Models of cognitive meditation and moderation in child depression
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A study was conducted on a number of mediational and moderational models of depression in children using data obtained from a cross-sectional study of fourth to sixth graders. Evidence was obtained for models where the relationship between competence and depression was mediated by attributional style and cognitve errors. Models in which the relationship between depression and competence or life events were mediated by attrbutional style found no support. A moderational model on negative life events and cognitive errors, on the other hand, found weak support.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1993
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Testing the cognitive content-specificity hypothesis with anxious and depressed youngsters
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A study was conducted to determine the validity of the cognitive-specificity hypothesis stipulated by Beck's cognitive model of psychopathology as applied to children. An analysis of the results of anxious and depressive cognition measures completed by schoolchildren revealed that, compared with positively worded items, negatively worded items were less effective in distinguishing between groups. Results partially support Beck's hypothesis and the positive-negative affectivity construct.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1993
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Anxiety and the interpretation of ambiguity: a text comprehension study
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Beck's hypothesis that anxiety-prone individuals tend to make threatening interpretations of ambiguity was examined using an adaptation of the RSVP method utilized in studies of on-line test comprehension processes. High trait anxious subjects were found to make threatening interpretations on ambiguous statements, while low trait anxious subjects made non-threatening interpretations. These results provide further support to the hypothesis.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1993
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