The Illusion of Control Among Depressed Patients.

Golin, Sanford; Terrell, Francis; Weitz, Jack; Drost, Patricia L.

doi:10.1037/h0077992

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“…Taken together, these findings suggest that self-esteem may be an important moderator of depressive symptoms in ASD. This is consistent with cognitive theories of depression from the general population [e.g., Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979]; depressed individuals tend to process information about themselves in a more negative way than their non-depressed counterparts [Golin, Terrell, Weitz, & Drost, 1979]. Evidence that negative attributions function similarly in ASD and the general population-that is, as a form of cognitive vulnerability that is a well-documented pathway to depression [Hankin et al, 2009]-is important for adapting findings from the depression treatment literature to ASD.…”

Section: Perceived Asd Impairmentsupporting

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Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

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The aim of this study was to examine the association between depressive symptoms and several psychosocial constructs (insight into autism symptoms, rumination, desire for social interaction, and satisfaction with social support) that may play a role in the development or maintenance of depression in verbally fluent adolescents and adults with ASD. Participants included 50 individuals with ASD and verbal IQ >= 70, aged 16-35 (sample size varied by measure). Elevated depressive symptoms on the Beck Depression Inventory, 2nd edition, were associated with greater self-perceived autism-related impairments (n=48), greater rumination (n=21), and lower perceived social support (n=37). Rumination tended to moderate the association between self-perceived autism symptoms and BDI-II scores (n=21), and was significantly associated with ASD-related Insistence on Sameness behaviors (n=18). An unexpected relationship between depressive features and social participation and motivation will need to be clarified by longitudinal research. These and similar findings contribute to our understanding of the phenomenology of depression in ASD, which is critical to the development of practical prevention and treatment.

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Section: Perceived Asd Impairmentsupporting

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Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

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“…There appears to be a good reason for individuals to establish and maintain these illusions. Beginning with Taylor and Brown (1988), a number of researchers have proposed that self-serving illusions actually foster mental health, and this viewpoint is strongly supported by the consistent finding that those individuals who fail to exhibit self-serving tendencies are more likely to have low self-esteem (Brown, 1986;Campbell & Fairey, 1985) or varying levels of depression (Abramson & Alloy, 198 1 ;Coyne & Gotlib, 1983;Golin, Terrell, & Johnson, 1977;Golin, Terrell, Weitz, & Drost, 1979;Greenberg, Vasquez, & Alloy, 1988;Kuiper, 1978;Rizlsy, 1978;Ruehlman, West, & Pasahow, 1985). Said in another way, self-enhancing illusions-in the form of overly positive views of the self and of the future, and a belief in one's ability to control eventsare associated with superior psychological functioning in the form of less depression and higher well-being and adjustment (Brown, 1991).…”

Section: Self-enhancing Illusionsmentioning

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Body Esteem: An Exception to Self‐Enhancing Illusions?¹

Powell

Matacin

Stuart

2001

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Participants were 192 university students (96 males, 96 females) who completed the Body Esteem scale (Franzoi & Shields, 1984) under instructions to rate their feelings about their own bodies, rate their feelings about a specific or “average” student's body, and rate the importance they and others attached to these feelings. One of the findings is that when individuals perceived themselves as less positive on a particular desirable physical trait, they also rated the trait as less important to possess in the first place. The only exception to this was women's weight concern. It was also found that men generally rated themselves higher on body‐esteem subscales than they rated other men, while women did not exhibit such self‐serving evaluations of their bodies. One implication from these results is that the same self‐enhancement strategies successfully employed by individuals in other areas of self‐evaluations were not successful in enhancing one's body esteem, especially women's weight concern.

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“…I t is clear that depressives' hyper-realism is not the result of psychopathology in general, but is specific to depression. Many of the above investigations demonstrated that depressives were not only more realistic than normals, but that they were also more realistic than various psychiatric control groups (Allison et al, 1968;Golin et al, 1979;Holt, 1968;Lewinsohn et al, 1980;Lobitz & Post, 1979;Roth & Rehm, 1980;Rozenski et al, 1977).…”

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“…On chance tasks, depressives' expectancies also are less distorted than those of nondepressives. Golin, Terrell, Weitz, and Drost (1979) examined the illusion of control in inpatients. They assessed expectancies during two games of dice: In one game, the inpatients were allowed to throw their own dice and thus experienced an illusion of control.…”

Section: Expectanciesmentioning

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Painful truths about depressives' cognitions

Layne

1983

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Cognitive theories assert that depressed persons' cognitions are distorted. Most of the empirical literature directly contradicts this assertion. Using a wide variety of methods to study a wide variety of cognitive processes, experiments consistently find that depressed people suffer significantly less cognitive distortion than do both normals and nondepressed psychiatric patients. It was speculated that childhood traumas predispose depression by preventing the normal formation of a defensive screen against painful realities.

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The Illusion of Control Among Depressed Patients.

Cited by 93 publications

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Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

Body Esteem: An Exception to Self‐Enhancing Illusions?¹

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Cited by 93 publications

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Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

Rumination and Perceived Impairment Associated With Depressive Symptoms in a Verbal Adolescent–Adult ASD Sample

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