Vulnerability-specific stress generation: an examination of depressogenic cognitive vulnerability across multiple domains

Longitudinal prediction of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: examination of a cognitive vulnerability-stress model.

Virtually no longitudinal research has examined psychological characteristics or events that may lead to adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). This study tested a cognitive vulnerability-stress model as a predictor of NSSI trajectories. Clinically-referred adolescents (n = 143; 72% girls) completed measures of NSSI, depression, attributional style, and interpersonal stressors during baseli...

Depression and Cognitive Vulnerability

[Cognitive vulnerability to depression].

This concise review of cognitive vulnerability to depression contains the discussion of several fundamental theoretical, methodological and empirical issues related to this important subject. The main aim was to describe in some detail the construct itself and to critically evaluate the hypotheses concerning the causal relation between specific processes, structures and cognitive contents and t...

Vulnerability-Stress Models

Cognitive Vulnerability, Stress Generation, and Anxiety: Symptom Clusters and Gender Differences

The aim of the present study was to examine whether low perceived control, a cognitive vulnerability factor, contributes to stress generation. We examined whether low perceived control contributed to greater dependent interpersonal, but not noninterpersonal, stressors, and whether such stressors then contributed to higher levels of anxious symptoms. As research has indicated that adolescent gir...