Let it go: Depression facilitates disengagement from unattainable goals

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue , 2017, Pages 278-284

  Koppe, Katharina ^a   Rothermund, Klaus ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anagram task; Depression; Disengagement; Therapy of depression; Unsolvable task

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP PRACTICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SATISFACTION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992560672     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.10.003     Document Type: Article

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