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- Title
An interactive-synergetic approach to the assessment of personality vulnerability to depression: Illustration using the adolescent version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire.
- Authors
Shahar, Golan; Gallagher, Elizabeth F; Blatt, Sidney J; Kuperminc, Gabriel P; Leadbeater, Bonnie J
- Abstract
Research on personality vulnerability to depression is characterized by a "main effect" approach, often at the expense of examining interactions among various dimensions of vulnerability. To compare the "main effect" and "interactive-synergetic" approaches, we utilized data from a longitudinal study of adolescent adjustment. Focusing on dependency, self-criticism, and efficacy, the three factors of the adolescent version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; Blatt, Schaffer, Bers, & Quinlan, 1992), we found support for the interactive-synergetic approach. Dependency and self-criticism interacted in predicting changes in depressive and internalizing symptoms (under low efficacy), and among boys-changes in internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Results illuminate the synergetic interplay among dimensions of risk and resilience in clinical research and practice.
- Publication
Journal of clinical psychology, 2004, Vol 60, Issue 6, p605
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1002/jclp.10237