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Effects of distraction on thinking and affect in depressed patients
Author(s) -
Fennell Melanie J. V.,
Teasdale John D.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb00628.x
Subject(s) - distraction , psychology , psychomotor learning , affect (linguistics) , cognition , depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , clinical psychology , major depressive disorder , developmental psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , cognitive psychology , communication , economics , macroeconomics
Beck's cognitive model of depression suggests that negative cognitions can maintain depression. Thus reducing the frequency of negative cognitions should reduce depression. Consistent with this proposition, in low endogenous patients with primary major depressive disorder, distraction produced fewer depressing thoughts than the control procedure, with corresponding differences in self‐report and psychomotor measures.