An indirect measure of negative self reference interacts with academic failure to predict continuing depressive symptomatology

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 602-609

  Sheppes, Gal ^a,b   Meiran, Nachshon ^a   Spivak, Orr ^a   Shahar, Golan ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive vulnerability; Depression; Dual process theory; Implicit Association Test; Stress diathesis; Task switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957311587     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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