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Explanatory style change during cognitive therapy for unipolar depression.

Martin E. P. Seligman · Camilo Castellon · John Cacciola · Schulman, Peter, (Translator) · Lester Luborsky · Maxine Ollove +1 more

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We administered the Attributional Style Questionnaire to 39 unipolar depressed patients at the beginning and end of cognitive therapy and at one-year follow-up, and we administered it to 12 bipolar patients during a depressed episode. A pessimistic explanatory style for bad events correlated with severity of depression for unipolars at cognitive therapy intake (r = .56, p < .0002), termination (r = .57, p < .0008), and one-year follow-up (r = .64, p < .0005) and among the bipolars (r = .63, p < .03). Explanatory style and depressive symptoms significantly improved by the end of cognitive therapy and remained improved at one-year follow-up. For the unipolars in cognitive therapy, explanatory style change from intake to termination correlated with change in depressive symptoms from intake to termination (r = .65, p < .0001). These results suggest that explanatory style may be one of the mechanisms of change for unipolar depressive patients undergoing cognitive therapy.

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