Cognitive vulnerability to depression: A taxometric analysis
Cognitive vulnerability to depression: A taxometric analysis
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-843x.113.1.81
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Miller, IW
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作者：
Gibb, BE;Alloy, LB;Miller, IW
尽管越来越多的人支持消极认知风格导致抑郁症易感性这一假设，但目前尚不清楚如何最好地概念化抑郁症认知易感性的异质性。具体来说，这种异质性是否反映了个体之间数量或质量的差异？本研究的目的是通过检查抑郁症认知脆弱性的潜在结构是否最好被概念化为维度或分类来解决这个问题。分类分析为消极认知风格的维度性质提供了一致的支持。因此，似乎对抑郁症的认知脆弱性最好被概念化为一个维度结构，或多或少地存在于所有个体中。尽管如此，消极认知风格和抑郁症状之间的关系强度似乎确实随着认知风格连续体所处的位置而变化。
Although there is increasing support for the hypothesis that negative cognitive styles contribute vulnerability to depression, it remains unclear how best to conceptualize the heterogeneity in cognitive vulnerability to depression. Specifically, does this heterogeneity reflect quantitative or qualitative differences among individuals? The goal of this study was to address this question by examining whether the underlying structure of cognitive vulnerability to depression is best conceptualized as dimensional or categorical. Taxometric analyses provided consistent support for the dimensional nature of negative cognitive styles. It appears, therefore, that cognitive vulnerability to depression is best conceptualized as a dimensional construct, present to a greater or lesser extent in all individuals. Despite this, the strength of the relationship between negative cognitive styles and depressive symptoms does appear to vary as a function of where along the cognitive style continuum one falls.