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Prospective evaluation of a cognitive vulnerability-stress model for depression: The interaction of schema self-structures and negative life events
Significance
- Interconnected positive content influences how life events predict depression.
- Cognitive organization stability suggests trait-like vulnerability to depressive symptoms.
- Life events and self-referent information interact to affect depression.
- Stable cognitive dimensions may indicate susceptibility to depressive traits.
- Predictive patterns of depression linked to cognitive and life events.
References
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Contact: Pamela M. Seeds, University of Waterloo
Source: Journal of Clinical psychology