Article history: Received 17 June 2015 Received in revised form 2 January 2016 Accepted 5 January 2016 Available online 15 January 2016 We examined whether burnout is associated with a depressive cognitive style, understood as a combination of dysfunctional attitudes, ruminative responses, and pessimistic attributions. A total of 1386 U.S. public school teachers were included—1063 women (MAGE: ...

  Purpose: Bipolar disorders of complex and multi-dimensional nature necessitate new therapies.   This research compared the effect of meta-cognitive and psycho-educational family therapy on   dysfunctional attitudes of bipolar patients.   Materials and Methods: This was a semi-empirical research with pretest-posttest design, using   control group. From among the bipolar woman who had referred ...

INTRODUCTION To identify dysfunctional attitudes seen in bipolar disorder (BPD) is important for the cognitive theories of BPD and corresponding psychosocial interventions. Cognitions are seen as vulnerability factors in the development and maintenance of BPD. The present study aims to contribute to the cognitive literature on BPD by examining depressive and hypomanic attitudes and their contri...

This study investigated the possibility that, in remitted bipolar I affective disorder, dysfunctional attitudes are mood-state dependent. Participants were 120 individuals with remitted bipolar I disorder, remitted unipolar depression, or no history of affective disorder. The Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale (DAS; Weissman, 1979) was completed before and after positive or negative mood challenge. ...

This study extends the existing adult literature on insecure attachment as a predictor of depression and anxiety by examining these pathways in a sample of adolescents. In addition, dysfunctional attitudes and low self-esteem were tested as mediators of the association between insecure attachment and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Youth (N = 350; 6th-10th graders) completed self-report mea...

This study investigated the roles of current mood-state and past depression in predicting self-esteem and dysfunctional attitudes in a sample of 110 adolescents who were presently non-depressed. First, the authors tested the hypothesis that lower self-esteem and more dysfunctional attitudes would be found among adolescents with more severe past depression (after statistically controlling curren...

OBJECTIVE A previous positron emission tomography (PET) study reported increased serotonin 5-HT(2A) receptor binding in unmedicated depressed patients with high scores on the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale. The purpose of the present study was to use the highly selective 5-HT(2A) receptor ligand [(11)C]MDL 100,907 in a PET imaging paradigm to assess 1) 5-HT(2A) receptor binding potential in euth...