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- Title
The stability and prediction of depressive mood states in college students.
- Authors
Wong, Jane L.; Whitaker, Dani J.
- Abstract
Objective criteria for predicting dysphoric mood states in college students from measures of stress and cognitive and personality variables were developed and cross-validated. Contrary to Beck's diathesis-stress model of depression, although dysfunctional attitudes, together with the number and impact of life events, self-esteem problems, and level of traditional feminine personality characteristics, predicted concurrent levels of depressive symptoms, initial level of depression was the best predictor of future depression. Cross-validation of the criteria resulted in accuracy rates of 86 to 87%. Implications of these results and some secondary findings were discussed.
- Subjects
IDENTITY (Psychology); MOOD (Psychology); MENTAL depression; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; PERSONALITY; COLLEGE students; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1994, Vol 50, Issue 5, p715
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-4679(199409)50:5<715::AID-JCLP2270500508>3.0.CO;2-K