Childhood Emotional Maltreatment, Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression, and Self-Referent Information Processing in Adulthood: Reciprocal Relations

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Steinberg ◽  
Brandon E. Gibb ◽  
Lauren B. Alloy ◽  
Lyn Y. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Emotional Maltreatment ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Information Processing Biases ◽  
Cognitive Risk ◽  
Alternate Model ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Risk For Depression

Previous work has established a relationship between reports of childhood emotional maltreatment and cognitive vulnerability to depression, as well as an association between cognitive vulnerability and self-referent information-processing biases. Findings from this study of individuals at low (LR) and high (HR) cognitive risk for depression revealed a relationship between reports of childhood emotional maltreatment and current information processing biases. Specifically, individuals with greater childhood emotional maltreatment exhibited more negative self-referent information processing. Moreover, cognitive risk mediated the relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and these information-processing biases. Testing an alternate model, information-processing biases also mediated the relationship between childhood emotional maltreatment and cognitive risk.

The Development of Depressogenic Cognitive Styles: The Role of Negative Childhood Life Events and Parental Inferential Feedback

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa G. Crossfield ◽  
Lauren B. Alloy ◽  
Brandon E. Gibb ◽  
Lyn Y. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Cognitive Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Risk For Depression

This study examined the role of childhood negative life events and parental inferential feedback in the development of cognitive vulnerability to depression. Students with negative cognitive styles, previously shown to be at high cognitive risk for depression, were predicted to have a greater history of negative childhood life events and negative parental inferential feedback than were students at low cognitive risk for depression. It was further predicted that parental inferential feedback would moderate the relationship between negative childhood life events and cognitive risk for depression. Finally, the associations between subsets of childhood negative life events and cognitive risk for depression were examined. No significant main effects were found for childhood negative life events or parental inferential feedback. The interaction of these 2 variables was significantly associated with cognitive risk status. Specifically, high levels of negative childhood life events in combination with negative maternal inferential feedback were associated with students’ cognitive risk for depression. When the negative childhood life events were divided into subsets, no main effects or interactions were found.

Self-Distancing May Be Harmful: Third-Person Writing Increases Levels of Depressive Symptoms Compared to Traditional Expressive Writing and No Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-69
Author(s):  
Annaleis K. Giovanetti ◽  
JUlia C. Revord ◽  
Maria P. Sasso ◽  
Gerald J. Haeffel
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Expressive Writing ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
The Self ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Cognitive Risk ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Daily Writing ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Risk For Depression

Introduction: The positive effects of expressive writing on both mental and physical health are well documented. However, expressive writing may have the potential to activate negative schemas and facilitate rumination in those at high cognitive risk for depression (Yasinski, Hayes, & Laurenceau, 2016). The current research tested the hypothesis that writing using self-distancing would be more effective than traditional expressive writing in preventing depressive symptoms for those at high cognitive risk for depression. Method: Two studies using undergraduate samples (n = 104 and n = 80) were conducted to test our hypotheses. Both studies used a two-week daily writing experimental design. Results: Contrary to hypotheses, Study 1 found that individuals randomly assigned to a self-distancing writing condition reported greater levels of depressive symptoms than those assigned to a traditional expressive writing condition. The results of Study 2 replicated the results of Study 1. Participants randomly assigned to the self-distancing writing condition reported significantly greater levels of depressive symptoms than those in the expressive writing and no-writing control conditions. The effect of writing condition in Study 2 was driven by those with high levels of cognitive vulnerability. Discussion: Results suggest that writing using self-distancing should not be used for the prevention of depressive symptoms.

Self-referent Information-processing in Individuals at High and Low Cognitive Risk for Depression

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 539-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Alloy ◽  
Lyn Y. Abramson ◽  
Laura A. Murray ◽  
Wayne G. Whitehouse ◽  
Michael E. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Risk ◽  
Risk For Depression

The Temple-Wisconsin Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Project: Lifetime history of Axis I psychopathology in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression.

2000 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Alloy ◽  
Lyn Y. Abramson ◽  
Michael E. Hogan ◽  
Wayne G. Whitehouse ◽  
Donna T. Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
Lifetime History ◽  
Cognitive Risk ◽  
History Of ◽  
Axis I ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Risk For Depression

Attachment and Field Dependence: Individual Differences in Information Processing

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Vermigli ◽  
Alessandro Toni
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Field Dependence ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Figure Test ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Measure Field

The present research analyzes the relationship between attachment styles at an adult age and field dependence in order to identify possible individual differences in information processing. The “Experience in Close Relationships” test of Brennan et al. was administered to a sample of 380 individuals (160 males, 220 females), while a subsample of 122 subjects was given the Embedded Figure Test to measure field dependence. Confirming the starting hypothesis, the results have shown that individuals with different attachment styles have a different way of perceiving the figure against the background. Ambivalent and avoidant individuals lie at the two extremes of the same dimension while secure individuals occupy the central part. Significant differences also emerged between males and females.

The Type of Temperament, Mood, and Strategies of Categorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wytykowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In Strelau’s theory of temperament (RTT), there are four types of temperament, differentiated according to low vs. high stimulation processing capacity and to the level of their internal harmonization. The type of temperament is considered harmonized when the constellation of all temperamental traits is internally matched to the need for stimulation, which is related to effectiveness of stimulation processing. In nonharmonized temperamental structure, an internal mismatch is observed which is linked to ineffectiveness of stimulation processing. The three studies presented here investigated the relationship between temperamental structures and the strategies of categorization. Results revealed that subjects with harmonized structures efficiently control the level of stimulation stemming from the cognitive activity, independent of the affective value of situation. The pattern of results attained for subjects with nonharmonized structures was more ambiguous: They were as good as subjects with harmonized structures at adjusting the way of information processing to their stimulation processing capacities, but they also proved to be more responsive to the affective character of stimulation (positive or negative mood).

Information Processing Biases in Impairment Decisions: Effect of Reversibility of Impairment Losses and Disclosure Transparency

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Hwee Cheng Tan ◽  
Ken T. Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Information Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Bias ◽  
Information Processing Biases ◽  
Search Bias

ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of regulatory requirements on impairment decisions and managers' search for and evaluation of impairment information. We manipulate reversibility of impairment losses (“can be reversed” versus “cannot be reversed”) and transparency in disclosures of impairment assumptions (more transparent versus less transparent) in a 2 × 2 experiment. We find that managers are more willing to impair when impairment losses can be reversed than when they cannot be reversed, but this effect does not vary with disclosure transparency. We also find that managers display information search bias in all four experimental conditions, however, regulatory requirements do not result in differences in the level of information search bias across the conditions. In contrast, regulatory requirements affect the differences in the level of information evaluation bias across conditions. We find that when impairment losses cannot be reversed, information evaluation bias is higher when disclosures are more transparent than less transparent. JEL Classification: M40; M41.

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