OBJECTIVE A ruminative cognitive style has been associated with a variety of mood and anxiety disorders. This study examined whether a ruminative cognitive style is associated with health anxiety, even when controlling for negative affect. METHOD College students (N=198) completed measures of health anxiety, rumination, and negative affect and estimated the likelihood that ambiguous symptoms ...

This chapter begins with a consideration of the labels used by investigators to describe cognitive style and proposes a categorization of these into two fundamental style dimensions: the wholist–analytic and verbal–imagery. Methods of assessing style are outlined and a simple direct method is described. Style is then examined within the context of other individual difference variables such as i...

Cognitive style is a continuing area of interest in MIS research. The work is often criticized for its fragmentation and lack of validity. This paper proposes the uses of a single instrument, the MyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI). It reviews the overall issue of validity and identifies the four steps cognitive style research must accornplish to achieve coherence. It assesses existing research r...

objectives: the present study has investigated the effect of cognitive behavioral group therapy on improving coping styles in patients with acute coronary heart disease. methods: semi-experimental in type of pretest-posttest with control group seems to be a good design for this study.22 patients with acute coronary heart disease are admitted in ccu of mashhad razavi hospital and undergo angiopl...

Understanding how individuals perceive an emerging technology can have a profound impact on how successfully the technology is adopted. We conjectured that the cognitive style of an individual would have a significant bearing on the way the person perceives the technology. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate whether cognitive styles affect the perception of RFID, one of the emer...

Research on the mechanisms by which interparental conflict (IPC) affects child depression suggests that both parenting and children's conflict appraisals play important roles, but few studies have explored the role of general cognitive style or included both parenting and cognitions in the same design. Moreover, the effects of IPC on minority children are not well understood. In this longitudin...

Fifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right (i.e., intuitive-holistic) vs. left (i.e., systematic-analytical) thinking style, was put online, and blog owners were asked to complete it in order to match their cognitive style to the “style” of their blog. Respondents were also asked some metac...