“…Self-esteem has also been identified as a potential predictor of outcome. It is a good candidate because it is a predictor of subsequent depression in naturalistic investigations (Brown, Andrews, Harris, Adler, & Bridge, 1986;Johnson, Meyer, Winett, & Small, 2000;Miller, Kreitman, Ingham, & Sashidharan, 1989;Roberts, Kassel, & Gotlib, 1995;Vostanis, Feehan, & Grattan, 1998;Wong & Whitaker, 1994), with Johnson et al's (2000) suggesting that self-esteem exerts its effect by mediating the effects of social support. In keeping with these expectations, self-esteem has been able to predict outcome at posttreatment (Bothwell & Scott, 1997;Roberts, Shapiro, & Gamble, 1999) and follow-up (Andrew, Hawton, Fagg, & Westbrook, 1993).…”