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The perception of life events in depressed inpatients and hospitalized controls
Author(s) -
Power M. J.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198703)43:2<206::aid-jclp2270430207>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - learned helplessness , psychology , set (abstract data type) , perception , clinical psychology , psychiatry , developmental psychology , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
Causal and consequence explanations for past life events, future life events, and a set of hypothetical events were obtained from depressed inpatients ( N = 18) and a group of matched hospitalized controls ( N = 18). Most of the causal dimensions were found to distinguish depressives from controls in the direction predicted by the Reformulated Learned Helplessness Theory, but the strongest support was obtained with the hypothetical events rather than with past or future events.