Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression

Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression.

BACKGROUND Only some women with recurrent major depressive disorder experience postnatal episodes. Personality and/or cognitive styles might increase the likelihood of experiencing postnatal depression. AIMS To establish whether personality and cognitive style predicts vulnerability to postnatal episodes over and above their known relationship to depression in general. METHOD We compared pe...

Cognitive vulnerability to comorbidity: looming cognitive style and depressive cognitive style as synergistic predictors of anxiety and depression symptoms.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Because anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, it is likely that individuals with co-occurring cognitive vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety will experience more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, no study to date has examined the effects of co-occurring (simultaneous) cognitive vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety on the severity of sy...

[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...

Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: development and validation of the cognitive style questionnaire.

The Cognitive Style Questionnaire (CSQ) measures the cognitive vulnerability factor featured in the hopelessness theory of depression. The CSQ has been used in over 30 published studies since its inception, yet detailed information about the psychometric and validity properties of this instrument has yet to be published. In this article, we describe the development of the CSQ and review reliabi...

Depression and Cognitive Vulnerability