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The relationship between the experience of mood symptoms, expectancy judgement and a person's current concern

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2010

Elizabeth S. Reilly  and
Warren Mansell
Elizabeth S. Reilly*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK
Warren Mansell
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
*
*Author for correspondence: Miss E. S. Reilly, 3/1, 66 Wilton Street, Glasgow G20 6RU, UK. (email: Elizabeth.reilly@hotmail.co.uk)
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Abstract

This study examined expectancy judgement and current concerns in high and low depression and anxiety participants. Expectancy judgement was measured using the Personal Future Task. Depression and anxiety symptoms were measured using the Depression and Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS). A novel scale, the Current Concerns Checklist, was developed to measure ten current concerns that were thought to relate to the most salient concerns of common Axis I disorders. Using the DASS, 19 participants were allocated to the distressed group and 17 to the non-distressed group. As hypothesized, there was a main effect for the current concern concept; participants thought of more future events regarding their current concern than their non-concern. However, the hypothesis that the distressed group would generate more negative relative to positive responses than the non-distressed group within the domain of their most prominent current concern was not supported. Future research and implications for CBT are discussed.

Keywords

Adultscognitive appraisalsCBTdepression
Type
Original Research
Information
the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 81 - 94
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2010

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