Do negative cognitive styles provide similar vulnerability to first onsets versus recurrences of
depressive disorders, and are these associations specific to depression? The authors …

BACKGROUND: Negative cognitive styles have been shown to prospectively predict
depression onset and recurrence. Research has also begun to suggest that cognitive styles …

BACKGROUND: Stress generation effects in depressed individuals have been well-
documented. However, less is known about what personal attributes of depression-prone …

An inference from the cognitive theories of depression is that only a subset of depressed
individuals should exhibit distinctively negative cognitive styles. Although this inference has …

The authors tested the cognitive vulnerability hypotheses of depression with a retrospective
behavioral high-risk design. Individuals without current Axis I diagnoses who exhibited …

Results from studies using a behavioral high-risk design and approximations to it generally
have corroborated the cognitive vulnerability hypothesis of depression, whereas results from …

The goal of this study was to “unpack” the “generic” cognitive vulnerability employed in the
retrospective behavioral high-risk design of Alloy and colleagues (2000), one of the major …

Differential risk factors for the onset of depression were prospectively examined in a
community-based sample of adolescents (N= 1,709), some of whom had a history of major …

According to the cognitive-vulnerability hypothesis of depression, negative cognitive styles
confer vulnerability to depression when people confront negative life events. In this article …

The main purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of cognitive risk variables
for previous episodes of major depression and for the recurrence of the disorder in a sample …