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Dysfunctional attitudes in depressed and recovered depressed patients and their first-degree relatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

M. J. Power ,
C. F. Duggan ,
A. S. Lee  and
R. M. Murray
M. J. Power*
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit and Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway; Genetics Section, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and King's College Hospital, London; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Nottingham
C. F. Duggan
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit and Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway; Genetics Section, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and King's College Hospital, London; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Nottingham
A. S. Lee
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit and Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway; Genetics Section, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and King's College Hospital, London; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Nottingham
R. M. Murray
Affiliation:
MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit and Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway; Genetics Section, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and King's College Hospital, London; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Nottingham
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr M. J. Power, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX.
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A series of depressed probands and their first-degree relatives were categorized as follows: (a) currently depressed; (b) recovered depressed; and (c) never-ill relatives. Their scores on a subscaled version of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (the DAS-24) were compared. The DAS total scores mirrored previous findings in that the total scores for recovered individuals returned to normal or near-normal levels. However, the dependency subscale scores remained elevated for the recovered depressed group. It is proposed that these results support the conclusion that self-report measures of cognitive vulnerability should focus on specific rather than global effects, if progress is to be made in the search for true vulnerability factors.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 87 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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