Article2005

Thought suppression and cognitive vulnerability to depression

81 citations0/0 files storedBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Cognitive reactivity (CR) has been defined as the relative ease with which maladaptive cognitions or cognitive styles are triggered by mild (nonpathological) mood fluctuations. CR has been found to predict relapse of depression (Segal, Gemar and Williams, 1999). This study compared different measures of CR, and also investigated the role of thought suppression as a possible mechanism underlying CR. DESIGN AND METHODS: Participants included 24 previously depressed, and 24 never depressed individuals who underwent a mood induction. They also completed a questionnaire designed to measure CR (LEIDS; Van der Does, 2002a), and participated in the scrambled sentences task (SST). The SST was designed to uncover thought suppression tendencies, and has been shown to discriminate between never depressed and previously depressed samples. RESULTS: LEIDS scores were higher for previously depressed than for never depressed individuals. However, CR as measured with the mood induction did not distinguish between these groups. The LEIDS was correlated with the results of the SST and with self-report measures of thought suppression. CONCLUSION: Active suppression of unwanted thoughts may be involved in the apparent inactive state of depressive cognitions during remission.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 81 citations exist upstream.

References

2012Cognitive Therapy for Depression 1996Beck Depression Inventory–II 1991Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes.1989Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.1997Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders 2000Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.1994Ironic processes of mental control.1980Cognitive Therapy of Depression

Cited by

2011Maternal Depression, Locus of Control, and Emotion Regulatory Strategy as Predictors of Preschoolers’ Internalizing Problems 2009Cognitive reactivity: Investigation of a potentially treatable marker of suicide risk in depression 2007An Investigation of the Relationship Between Cognitive Reactivity and Rumination 2013Mood reactivity rather than cognitive reactivity is predictive of depressive relapse: A randomized study with 5.5-year follow-up.2016Psychometric properties of the Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity (LEIDS).

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.