TY - JOUR
T1 - Depression and evaluative schemata
AU - Ruehlman, L. S.
AU - West, Stephen
AU - Pasahow, R. J.
PY - 1985/3
Y1 - 1985/3
N2 - 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
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00888.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1985.tb00888.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 3889272
AN - SCOPUS:0022035867
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 53
SP - 46
EP - 92
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 1
ER -