Cognitions associated with anxiety and depression |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA;2. Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA;3. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA;4. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA;1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany;2. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany;3. Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany;4. Department of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the study was to examine whether cognitions associated with depression were different from those associated with anxiety. Sixty-four students and clerical staff completed the Beck Depression Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Cognitions Questionnaire. Those respondents whose depression scores were above the median were found to have significantly greater scores on one dimension of distortion (i.e. generalisation across situations) than respondents whose depression scores were below the median. There was also a general tendency for depression to be related to levels of overall cognitive distortion. The respondents whose trait anxiety scores were above the median did not show a significantly greater degree of overall cognitive distortion or generalisation across situations than those respondents whose anxiety scores were below the median. |
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