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The effects of Cumulative Trauma and Cognitive Rigidity on the Severity of Depressive Disorder: Preliminary Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

M. Salla ,
M. Aguilera ,
C. Paz ,
J. Moya-Higueras  and
G. Feixas
M. Salla*
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona, Department Of Clinical Psychology And Psychobiology, BARCELONA, Spain
M. Aguilera
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona, Department Of Cognition, Development And Educational Psychology, BARCELONA, Spain
C. Paz
Affiliation:
Universidad de Las Américas, School Of Psychology, Quito, Ecuador
J. Moya-Higueras
Affiliation:
Universitat de Lleida, Department Of Psychology, Lleida, Spain
G. Feixas
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona, Department Of Clinical Psychology And Psychobiology, BARCELONA, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The long-lasting effects of trauma on mental health and the cumulative effect during the lifetime is one of the great interest in research and applied psychology. However, the effect of cumulative trauma in combination with cognitive biases, such as cognitive rigidity (“all-or-nothing” thinking pattern), on the severity of depression has not been tested yet.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to analyse these variables, while considering for differential gender effects on a sample of patients with the diagnosis of depressive disorder.

Methods

A total sample of 177 patients (137 women) were assessed using the Cumulative Trauma Scale. Cognitive rigidity was measured with the Repertory Grid Technique and severity of depressive symptoms with the Beck Depression Inventory.

Results

indicated that high levels of cognitive rigidity and high frequency of perceived negative cumulative trauma predicted depressive symptoms; while high frequency of perceived positive trauma did not predict depressive symptoms. Moreover, gender did not explain variability of depression, and its interaction with frequency of perceived trauma was not significant.

Conclusions

Overall, traumatic cumulative trauma frequency and its negative appraisal are key to the understanding the severity of depression but also cognitive rigidity seemed to be a relevant factor to consider. Thus, these results highlight the need to focus on traumatic and cognitive aspects to increase the efficacy of psychological interventions in depression.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

traumatic eventsdichotomous thinkingDepression
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European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S553
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