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Positive and negative cognitive style correlates of the vulnerability to hypomania
Author(s) -
Dempsey Robert C.,
Gooding Patricia A.,
Jones Steven H.
Publication year - 2011
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/jclp.20789
Subject(s) - hypomania , psychology , vulnerability (computing) , cognitive vulnerability , cognition , cognitive style , clinical psychology , style (visual arts) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , mania , psychiatry , bipolar disorder , depressive symptoms , computer science , computer security , archaeology , history
Specific forms of ruminative cognitive styles and self‐appraisals have been implicated in the development of bipolar symptomatology. This study investigated the associations between measures of positive and negative forms of appraisals and rumination with vulnerability to hypomania, and also investigated the conceptual overlap between these measures in terms of the responses to emotional experiences captured. Hypomania vulnerability was predicted by measures of positive cognitive styles, whilst current depressive symptoms were explained by scores on measures of negative cognitive styles in an analogue sample of 353 participants. A principal components analysis conducted upon the rumination and appraisal measures yielded three components representing positive and negative cognitive styles, and a normalizing of symptoms component. The implications of these results are discussed. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 67:673–690, 2011.