We summarize and integrate research on cognitive vulnerability to depression among
children and adolescents. We first review prospective longitudinal studies of the most …

Ever since their introduction in the late 1960s, cognitive theories of vulnerability to
depression have generated a vast amount of empirical attention (Abramson et al., 2002; …

Evaluated the psychometric properties of a newly created measure of cognitive vulnerability
to depression for use with adolescents. Previous measures have shown poor internal …

Research examining the epidemiology of depression suggests that ado-lescence may be a
critical period for understanding the development of this disorder for two reasons. First …

This paper quantitatively reviews longitudinal studies examining three central cognitive
theories of depression—Beck's theory, Hopelessness theory, and the Response Styles …

According to cognitive models of depression, individuals who have a negative cognitive
style regarding the causes of stressful life events (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989; …

Cognitive theories of depression have been shown to be potent predictors of future
increases in depressive symptoms and disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. This …

The current multi-wave longitudinal study on childhood examined the role that social and
academic self-efficacy beliefs and cognitive vulnerabilities play in predicting depressive …

In this study, we examined the role of three social learning mechanisms in the development
of undergraduates' depressogenic cognitive styles: modeling of parents' negative cognitive …

Theories of cognitive vulnerability to depression (CVD) imply that CVD is early-emerging
and trait-like; however, little longitudinal work has tested this premise in middle childhood, or …