Social cognitive complexity and depression: Cognitive complexity moderates the correlation between depression self-ratings and global self-evaluation

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 190, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 670-676

  Gara, Michael A ^a   Woolfolk, Robert L ^a   Allen, Lesley A ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036798721     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200210000-00003     Document Type: Article

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