Interpretation of Ambiguous Information in Girls at Risk for Depression

Autor/inn/en	Dearing, Karen F.; Gotlib, Ian H.
Titel	Interpretation of Ambiguous Information in Girls at Risk for Depression
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37 (2009) 1, S.79-91 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-008-9259-z
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Daughters; Females; At Risk Persons; Depression (Psychology); Mental Health; Cognitive Processes; Negative Attitudes; Parent Influence; Emotional Response; Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Weibliches Geschlecht; Risikogruppe; Psychohygiene; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Negative Fixierung; Emotionales Verhalten; Anreizsystem
Abstract	Research has consistently documented that depressed individuals process information in a negatively biased manner. There is little evidence, however, concerning whether these biases represent risk factors for depression, as is hypothesized by cognitive models. In the present study we investigated whether a particular cognitive bias observed in currently depressed individuals, the tendency to interpret ambiguous information negatively, characterizes daughters of depressed mothers, a population known to be at increased risk for depression. Following a negative mood induction, young daughters of depressed and never-disordered mothers completed two information-processing tasks in which their interpretations of emotionally ambiguous stimuli were evaluated. Daughters of depressed mothers interpreted ambiguous words more negatively and less positively, and ambiguous stories more negatively, than did daughters of never-disordered mothers. These results provide support for cognitive vulnerability models of depression. (As Provided).
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