The relationship between cognitive structure and symptoms of depression in the elderly

Vézina, Jean; Bourque, Paul

doi:10.1007/bf01315095

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“…Given the absence of studies on the stability of depressive attributes in the gerontological literature, the present results must be viewed as exploratory, and require further investigation. Note that the consistently observed high correlation of ATQ and BDI in the present study (similarly observed with younger adults, e.g., Dobson & Shaw, 1986;Hollon et al, 1986; and also in elders, e.g., Vezina & Bourque, 1984) suggests that the ATQ may be an integral characteristic of depressive symptomatology rather than an independent construct.…”

Section: Specificity and Stability Of Depression-relevant Characterissupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Thus, with regard to cognitive assessment, results supported the findings of Lam et al (1987) and Vezina and Bourque (1984) of greater endorsement of negative automatic thoughts and dysfunctional cognitive schemas in elderly depressed vs. nondepressed normal subjects, and parallelled those observed in younger populations (Dobson & Breiter, 1983;Dohr et al, 1989;Eaves & Rush, 1984;Harrell & Ryon, 1983;Hamilton & Abramson, 1983;Hollon et al, 1986).…”

Section: Specificity and Stability Of Depression-relevant Characterissupporting

confidence: 76%

“…Issacs and Silver (1980) reported that their 12 depressive subjects endorsed more dysfunctional attitudes than controls, but the difference was nonsignificant. In contrast, Vezina and Bourque (1984) found that their group of 12 moderately depressed elderly subjects displayed significantly more automatic negative thoughts and dysfunctional attitudes than did controls. In the single study involving a patient sample, Lam et al (1987) similarly found that their 23 elderly depressives, as compared to a control group living in the community, reported significantly more automatic thoughts and dysfunctional attitudes.…”

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“…A check on all Tl socio-demographic and psychological characteristics of sample exclusions after T2 (including drop-outs, mortalities, and failures to meet selection criteria) indicated no significant differences between these subjects and their respective groups, other than on one variable (ATQ), on which medical exclusions (N = 5) showed lower scores than medical completers. Following Vezina and Bourque (1984) and Griffin and Kogut (1988), all research measures were orally administered to subjects by the research assistants, who indicated subjects' responses on their copies of the instruments. Assessments at Tl and T2 were conducted in two sessions (a.m. and p.m.) in order to minimize fatigue unless unnecessary (mostly with medical subjects).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study used the French translations of the ATQ and DAS used in Vezina and Bourque (1984). Although the reliabilities of these translations were not reported, both scales were found to discriminate significantly between symptomatically depressed and nondepressed elders, as theorized in the cognitive model.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Specificity and Persistence of Cognitive-Dynamic Characteristics in Elderly Depression

Bachelor

1996

Can. J. Aging

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Given the lack of research in clinically depressed elders, and drawing on an integrative perspective, this study examined predictions of three prominent psychological models of depression (cognitive, learned helplessness, and psychodynamic theory) in a sample of elderly depressed patients. The hypothesized specificity to depression and stability of representative psychological characteristics were evaluated by comparing levels of 25 clinically depressed elders, 20 nondepressed psychiatric controls and 28 nondepressed medical controls, at hospitalization (Tl), discharge (T2) and five months later (T3). Also, the relative contribution of theory-based variables to depression severity at discharge and at follow-up was explored. While elderly depressed patients showed, overall, significantly higher levels of maladaptive cognitions, biased attributions, and selected depressogenic personality traits than medical controls, these variables did not discriminate among depressives and psychiatric controls, with the exception of negative automatic thinking, and pessimistic attributions in females. Positive attributional style and hedonism did not discriminate among subject groups. Support was found for the stability, in the depressed group, of purportedly traitlike characteristics through hospitalization to follow-up. Multiple regression analyses indicated that initial symptomatology level was the strongest predictor of both discharge and follow-up depression severity, whereas selected variables from each theoretical model contributed marginally, depending on the time of assessment.

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Section: Specificity and Stability Of Depression-relevant Characterissupporting

confidence: 80%