Paper Title
Depression and evaluative schemata
Keywords
- Depression
- Evaluative Schemata
- Nondepressed Individuals
- Mildly Depressed
- Severely Depressed
- Judgments Of Contingency
- Attributions Of Causality
- Expectancy Estimates
- Self-Schemata
- Self-Reference
- Positivistic Responses
- Unbiased Responses
- Negativistic Bias
- Cognitive Processing
- Contemporary Depression Models
Article Type
Research Article
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 53 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 46-92
Published On
March, 1985
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Abstract
The evaluative tendencies of nondepressed, mildly depressed, and severely depressed individuals are examined in the areas of judgments of contingency, attributions of causality, expectancy estimates, and self-schemata/self-reference The available empirical literature in these four areas indicates that nondepressed people tend to exhibit positivistic evaluative responses, whereas mildly depressed persons tend to display unbiased (neither positivistic nor negativistic) evaluative response patterns The available evidence is suggestive of negativistic evaluative tendencies in severely depressed individuals, with this bias being most clearly manifested in the area of self-schemata/self-reference These results are interpreted in terms of contemporary explanations of depression and recent advances in models of cognitive processing
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