RT Journal Article
T1 Memory biases in remitted depression: The role of negative cognitions at explicit and automatic processing levels
A1 Romero, Nuria
A1 Vázquez Valverde, Carmelo José
A1 Sanchez, Alvaro
AB Background and objectives: Cognitive models propose that depression is caused by dysfunctional schemas that endure beyond the depressive episode, representing vulnerability factors for recurrence. However, research testing negative cognitions linked to dysfunctional schemas in formerly depressed individuals is still scarce. Furthermore, negative cognitions are presumed to be linked to biases in recalling negative self-referent information in formerly depressed individuals, but no studies have directly tested this association. In the present study, we evaluated differences between formerly and never-depressed individuals in several experimental indices of negative cognitions and their associations with the recall of emotional self-referent material.Methods:Formerly (n=30) and never depressed individuals (n=40) completed measures of explicit (i.e., scrambled sentence test) and automatic (i.e., lexical decision task) processing to evaluate negative cognitions. Furthermore participants completed a self-referent incidental recall task to evaluate memory biases.Results:Formerly compared to never depressed individuals showed greater negative cognitions at both explicit and automatic levels of processing. Results also showed greater recall of negative self-referent information in formerly compared to never-depressed individuals. Finally, individual differences in negative cognitions at both explicit and automatic levels of processing predicted greater recall of negative self-referent material in formerly depressed individuals. Limitations:Analyses of the relationship between explicit and automatic processing indices and memory biases were correlational and the majority of participants in both groups were women.Conclusions:Our findings provide evidence of negative cognitions in formerly depressed individuals at both automatic and explicit levels of processing that may confer a cognitive vulnerability to depression.
PB Elsevier
SN 0005-7916
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98452
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98452
LA eng
NO Romero, N., Sanchez, A., & Vazquez, C. (2014). Memory biases in remitted depression: the role of negative cognitions at explicit and automatic processing levels. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 45(1), 128–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.09.008
NO Ministry of Research, Science, and Innovation
NO Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
DS Docta Complutense
RD 16 abr 2025