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- Title
Gender Differences in Cognitive Schema Vulnerability and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.
- Authors
Brenning, Katrijn; Bosmans, Guy; Braet, Caroline; Theuwis, Lotte
- Abstract
This study aims to investigate whether gender differences in the prevalence of depressive symptoms, with girls reporting more depressive symptoms than boys, are related to gender differences in cognitive schema vulnerability. A cross-sectional study investigating adolescents from both clinical (N = 110) and non-clinical samples (N = 118) was conducted, using the Young Schema Questionnaire — Short Form (YSQ-SF) as a measure of cognitive schema vulnerability. Results show that adolescent girls tend to score higher on several maladaptive cognitive schemas, and that these schemas tend to be more highly correlated with depressive symptoms compared to adolescent boys. Further, cognitive schema vulnerability mediated the relationship between life-stress and depressive symptoms in girls but not in boys.
- Subjects
GENDER differences (Psychology); COGNITIVE ability; MENTAL depression; ADOLESCENT psychology; QUESTIONNAIRES; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
- Publication
Behaviour Change, 2012, Vol 29, Issue 3, p164
- ISSN
0813-4839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/bec.2012.15