Personalizing and externalizing biases in deluded and depressed patients: Are attributional biases a stable and specific characteristic of delusions?

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-544

  Diez Alegría, Cristina ^a   Vázquez, Carmelo ^b   Nieto Moreno, Marta ^b   Valiente, Carmen ^a   Fuentenebro, Filiberto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARANOIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REMISSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELUSIONS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845879882     PISSN: 01446657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466505X86681     Document Type: Article

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