Cognitive vulnerability to comorbidity: Looming cognitive style and depressive cognitive style as synergistic predictors of anxiety and depression symptoms

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• 作者：Evan M. Kleiman ; John H. Riskind
• 关键词：Cognitive vulnerabilities ; Negative cognitive style ; Looming cognitive style ; Comorbidity ; Anxiety ; Depression
• 刊名：Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：December, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：43
• 期：4
• 页码：1109-1114
• 全文大小：211 K

文摘

Background and objectives

Because anxiety and depression are highly comorbid, it is likely that individuals with co-occurring cognitive vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety will experience more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, no study to date has examined the effects of co-occurring (simultaneous) cognitive vulnerabilities to depression and anxiety on the severity of symptoms.

Method

The present study examines the co-occurring effects of Negative Cognitive Style, a vulnerability to depression, and Riskind¡¯s (2000) looming cognitive style, a vulnerability to anxiety.

Results

Results indicated that those with co-occurring vulnerabilities experience a more severe level of anxiety and depression symptoms.

Limitations

The present study used a measure of symptoms rather than actual clinical diagnoses.

Conclusion

These findings address the previously ignored area of cognitive vulnerability to comorbidity. Co-occurring cognitive vulnerabilities to anxiety and depression synergistically confer risk for more severe anxiety and depression symptoms than the individual or additive effects of either vulnerability do alone.