Development of Negative Attributional Styles

描述(申请人提供)：本研究的主要目标是 通过检查以下因素来更好地了解抑郁症的发展 可能有助于形成易患抑郁症的认知能力。 了解抑郁症的发展是很重要的，因为抑郁症 是第二种最常见的心理障碍，终生流行 估计高达17.1%，并估计 美国经济萧条造成的经济负担为437亿美元 每年一次。因此，了解漏洞是如何 抑郁症的发展是以缓冲为目标的干预的重要步骤 防止这种脆弱性的发展，从而降低 抑郁症发作。因此，在目前的研究中，独立、独特、 以及多个假设因素的综合影响 本研究将考察儿童消极归因风格的发展。 经过6个月的纵向随访。这些因素将包括变量 以前在纵向研究中发现对 儿童的发展？S和青少年？归因方式和归因方式 归因风格与横断面关系的影响因素 但还没有进行纵向检查。通过这种方式，目前的研究将寻求 来整合和扩展先前的研究结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the current study is to better understand the development of depression by examining factors that may contribute to the development of a cognitive vulnerability to depression. Understanding the development of depression is important given that depression is the second most common psychological disorder, with lifetime prevalence estimates as high as 17.1 percent , and estimates that the economic burden of depression in the United States is $43.7 billion annually. Thus, understanding how vulnerability to depression develops is an important step in targeting interventions to buffer against the development of that vulnerability, thereby reducing the risk of depression onset. In the current study, therefore , the independent, unique, and combined influences of a number of factors hypothesized to contribute to the development of negative attributional styles in children will be examined over a 6-month longitudinal follow-up. These factors will include variables previously identified in longitudinal studies as contributing to the development of children?s and adolescents? attributional styles as well as factors demonstrating cross-sectional relationships with attributional styles but not yet examined longitudinally. In this way, the current study will seek to both integrate and extend previous findings.