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I Think I Can: Positive Cognitions and Functional Impairment in Depression

Lehmann, Jennifer K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1467807142

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2016, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
Individuals with depression experience impairment in areas of social, household, and occupational functioning. Cognitive therapy assumes that both depression symptomology and functional impairment should be strongly related to the presence of positive and negative cognitions. The present study evaluated the relationship between positive cognitions and functional impairment in depressed patients. Increased depression severity was significantly related to deficits in impairment. Positive cognitions did not significantly contribute to functional impairment after accounting for depression severity. Post hoc analyses assessed differences in coping attitudes and functional impairment between patients with MDD alone and patients with MDD and comorbid dysthymia. After accounting for depression severity, positive cognitions significantly contributed to differences in levels of functional impairment in the MDD alone group but not the double depression group. The current study reinforces the notion that more severe levels of depression symptomology are associated with significantly higher levels of functional impairment.
James Overholser, Ph.D (Advisor)
Norah Feeny, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Arin Connell, Ph.D (Committee Member)
72 p.
Clinical Psychology
depression; functional impairment; positive cognitions; coping attitudes;

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  • Lehmann, J. K. (2016). I Think I Can: Positive Cognitions and Functional Impairment in Depression [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1467807142

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lehmann, Jennifer. I Think I Can: Positive Cognitions and Functional Impairment in Depression. 2016. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1467807142.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lehmann, Jennifer. "I Think I Can: Positive Cognitions and Functional Impairment in Depression." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1467807142

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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