At Time 1, children (n=140) completed measures assessing dysfunctional attitudes, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms.
Significant time effects show improvements on measures of global functioning, social functioning, medication compliance, dysfunctional attitudes, and coping style.
An experimental design attempted to examine changes in the dysfunctional attitudes in participants with and without depressive symptomatology following negative and positive mood induction and tested whether dysfunctional attitudes predicted symptoms of depression after one month.
Findings suggest that negative mood priming is not a successful procedure in eliciting dysfunctional attitudes and that there is no difference based on depressive symptomatology in the increase of dysfunctional attitudes after mood priming.
The main results indicated that vulnerability to stress, pessimism, dysfunctional attitudes and neuroticism were positively associated with depressive symptomatology.
Evaluations included complete pretreatment and 18-month follow-up assessments of mood and anxiety symptoms, functioning, medication compliance, dysfunctional attitudes, and coping style.
The current study was designed to examine the associations among vulnerability to stress, pessimism, dysfunctional attitudes and personality with depressive symptomatology in a sample of higher education students.
The objective of this study was to validate the Iranian version of the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale Form A in the context of Iranian students.
A follow-up of anorexia nervosa patients indicated that changes in ED psychopathology were associated with changes in dysfunctional attitudes and maladaptive cognitive-affective processes.
Higher scores reflect more dysfunctional attitudes [ 20].
The total score relates to the severity of dysfunctional attitudes.
