Prior research has found that depressed individuals are more realistic in their interpretations of certain events than nondepressed individuals. However, the implications of this finding for the etiology of depressive disorders have never been clarified. The current investigation sought to remedy this situation by exploring realism in the context of a well-validated, cognitive diathesis-stress ...

Previous research has suggested that patients meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) display altered self-related information processing. However, experimental studies on dysfunctional self-referential information processing in BPD are rare. In this study, BPD patients (N = 30) and healthy control participants (N = 30) judged positive, neutral, and negative words in terms of...

Abstract Introduction People with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSDs) and bipolar (BDs) experience difficulty social cognition, or the mental processes that underlie interactions, but determinants of cognitive impairment are still under investigation. Research suggests poor sleep quality is related to reduced ability in BDs, it unclear if cognition SSDs may be different types (e.g., emotion...

This series of two longitudinal studies represents a comprehensive and systematic attempt to investigate the tenets of the reformulated learned helplessness model in a non-clinical undergraduate student population. These studies specifically addressed the diathesis-stress and mediation components of the model in an attempt to replicate and extend the findings of Peterson and Barrett (1987). A t...

BACKGROUND Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often believed to attribute unexplained symptoms to physical disorders. We tested this hypothesis by assessing symptom interpretation, symptom severity, and quality of life in patients attending hospital gastroenterology clinics. AIM The main aims of this study were: to assess the symptom attributional styles of hospital gastroentero...

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. This study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of behavioral activation group therapy on attributional styles, depression, and quality of life in women with breast cancer. Materials and Methods: This clinical trial carried out using a pretest-posttest control group design. Of all the women suf...

In the authors' 2-dimensional model of prejudice, explicit and implicit attitudes are used to create 4 profiles: truly low prejudiced (TLP: double lows), aversive racists (AR: low explicit modern racism/high implicit prejudice), principled conservatives (PC: high explicit modern racism/low implicit prejudice), and modern racists (MR: double highs). Students completed an Asian Modern Racism Scal...