Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS). Psychometrics and Norms of the Swedish Version

Ohrt, Torbjörn; Thorell, Lars‐Håkan

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“…, in a longitudinal study, also demonstrated that higher DAS scores can predict the onset of depression 46 . The DAS has generally been used in different cultural settings such as Sweden, 47 Norway 39 and Turkey 48 …”

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Cognitive patterns and depression: Study of a Japanese university student population

Tanaka

Uji

Hiramura

et al. 2006

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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According to Beck's cognitive theory, individuals who endure negative self-schemas (dysfunctional attitudes) are more likely to present automatic thoughts consisting of negative schemata of oneself and one's world while experiencing depression. In order to examine the relationships between depression, automatic thought, and dysfunctional attitude, 329 Japanese university students were given a set of questionnaires, including the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), Automatic Thought Questionnaire-revised (ATQ-R), and Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS). A structural equation model revealed that depression was predicted predominantly by automatic thought, which was in turn predicted by dysfunctional attitude. The male gender had a tendency to predict dysfunctional attitude. The link between a student's depression and dysfunctional attitude was mediated by automatic thought.

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Cognitive patterns and depression: Study of a Japanese university student population

Tanaka

Uji

Hiramura

et al. 2006

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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“… 9 It should be noted though that an endorsement of 5 is at the higher end of the spectrum for clinical groups, with currently depressed individuals’ typical endorsement score for DAS items ranging between 3.5–4.5 (e.g., Ohrt & Thorell, 1998 ; Rogers et al, 2009 ; Wang, Halvorsen, Eisemann, & Waterloo, 2010 ), though we appreciate that the endorsements within the context of a memory task cannot be directly compared with those using a pen and paper measure. …”

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Affective enhancement of working memory is maintained in depression.

Schweizer¹,

Navrady²,

Breakwell³

et al. 2018

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We currently know little about how performance on assessments of working memory capacity (WMC) that are designed to mirror the concurrent task demands of daily life are impacted by the presence of affective information, nor how those effects may be modulated by depression—a syndrome where sufferers report global difficulties with executive processing. Across 3 experiments, we investigated WMC for sets of neutral words in the context of processing either neutral or affective (depressogenic) sentences, which had to be judged on semantic accuracy (Experiments 1 and 2) or self-reference (Experiment 3). Overall, WMC was significantly better in the context of depressogenic compared with neutral sentences. However, there was no support for this effect being modulated by symptoms of depression (Experiment 1) or the presence of recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD; Experiments 2 and 3). Implications of these findings for cognitive theories of the role of WM in depression are discussed in the context of a growing body of research showing no support for a differential impact of depressogenic compared with neutral information on WM accuracy.

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“…The original English versions of the DAS-A and -B were translated into Swedish by a group of psychiatrists and psychologists at the Department of Psychiatry at Linkö ping University Hospital. The Swedish versions of DAS-A and -B have been found to be equivalent (3). Most studies have used only the DAS-A; and it was, therefore, selected for use in the present study.…”

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“…Weissman originally developed two parallel versions of the scale, DAS-A and DAS-B. DAS-A has been translated into several languages, and a Swedish version has recently been standardized and validated (3).…”

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Ratings of cognitive distortion in major depression: Changes during treatment and prediction of outcome

Ohrt¹,

Thorell²

1998

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

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TORBJO 8 RN OHRT, LARS-HÅ KAN THORELL Ohrt T, Thorell L-H. Ratings of cognitive distortion in major depression: Changes during treatment and prediction of outcome. Nord J Psychiatry 1998;52:239 -244. Oslo. ISSN 0803-9488.The aim of this study was twofold: to test the state-dependency hypothesis by studying changes in ratings of cognitive distortion in relation to treatment response and to investigate the predictive value of ratings of cognitive distortion for treatment response. Twenty-six subjects with major depression were assessed with the Swedish versions of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) and the Automatic Thought Questionnaire (ATQ) before and after a 6-week period of psychopharmacologic treatment. The results support state dependency of cognitive distortion in depression. A predictive value of the cognitive measurements for treatment response was not supported.

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Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS). Psychometrics and Norms of the Swedish Version

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Cognitive patterns and depression: Study of a Japanese university student population

Cognitive patterns and depression: Study of a Japanese university student population

Affective enhancement of working memory is maintained in depression.

Ratings of cognitive distortion in major depression: Changes during treatment and prediction of outcome

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