“…Empirical investigations have supported the hypothesized relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and depression (Eaves & Rush, 1984;Wong & Whitaker, 1993), the interaction of dysfunctional attitudes with stressful life events in accounting for the variance in depressive symptoms (Olinger, Kuiper, & Shaw, 1987;Wise & Barnes, 1986), and the prediction of subsequent symptoms from dysfunctional cognitions (Rush, Weissenburger, & Eaves, 1986;Zuroff, Igreja, & Mongrain, 1990). However, other factors also have been associated with increased depressed mood states in college students, including problem-solving deficits, low self-esteem, and freshman status (Marx & Schulze, 1991;Wong & Whitaker, 1993), although these, too, have been correlated positively with higher levels of dysfunctional cognitions (Wong & Whitaker, 1993).…”