Hopelessness Depression: An Empirical Search For a Theory-Based Subtype

Abramson, Lyn Y.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Metalsky, Gerald I.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-0649-8_4

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“…Recent theoretical perspectives, for instance, have suggested that a subset of depressed people may be characterized by a negative cognition depression (Abramson, Alloy, & Metalsky, 1990;Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) and would thus relatively uniquely be expected to respond to aversive events with dysfunctional cognition. Indeed, people may get depressed for a variety of reasons, and cognitive factors may be prominent in only a certain proportion of these depressions.…”

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Attentional allocation processes in individuals at risk for depression

1994

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Attentional allocation processes in individuals at risk for depression

1994

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“…Hopelessness is a loss of positive feeling about the future (Kovacs, Beck, & Weissman, 1975) and is regarded as a sufficient, proximal cause of depression (Abramson. Alloy, & Metalsky, 1990).…”

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Conservative Orientation as a Determinant of Hopelessness

Cheung

Kwok²

1996

The Journal of Social Psychology

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Conservative orientation is identified with reference to authoritarianism, work ethic belief, just world belief, and endorsement of individualistic causes of social problems. This over-arching orientation is hypothesized to affect hopelessness and to be affected by self-esteem with reference to ego development theory and learned helplessness theory. Causal modeling of data obtained from 1st-year college students (N = 556) in Hong Kong supports the hypotheses, showing that a student's hopelessness relates to his or her conservative orientation, even when self-esteem is controlled. This relationship can be interpreted by ego development and learned helplessness theories and cannot be explained as a spurious effect. Through the theories, hopelessness is interpreted as a result of maladaptive development and fatalistic, alienated, and helpless outlooks. This maladaptive development and the outlooks in turn result from students' conservative and individualistic orientation.

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“…On the other hand, attributions to less important events with less negative outcomes may be less significant in influencing a person's response (Abramson et al, 1989).…”

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“…Fear and insecurities of the Israeli growing power, humiliation due to 1948 occupation of Palestine commemorated by the Arabs as the Catastrophe (Nakba), the loss of 1967 war and the loss of the Golan Heights, anger and aversion because of the Israeli occupation, and oppression of the Palestinian people have all been major markers of the Syrians' sense of who they are. The era of stability, economic austerity, and sense of Syrian pride muffled the sense of opposition to a regime that survived many regional challenges-such as 1976 Camp David agreement, the involvement in the Lebanese Civil War 1975-1989 Muslim brotherhood uprising, which was silenced by the regime killing more than 20,000 people in the city of Hama (Fisk, 2010). Until this present day, the Hama massacre is still alive in the memory of many Syrians, and therefore the trauma is still lingering.…”

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Living with Ongoing Political Trauma: The Prevalence and Impact of PTSD among Syrian Refugees

Kreidie¹,

Kreidie²,

HayaAtassi³

2016

JPR

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Conflicts and wars kill humanity. Nationalist or Religious wars, terrorist attacks, shock and awe war on terror, and revolutions such as the Arab upheavals, all underscored by victors "mission accomplished": the destruction of the body, the soul, and the minds of people involved. This study addresses the prevalence and implications of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among civilians exposed to "continuous" trauma aggravated by displacement. The majority of the literature on PTSD that examines people who witnessed wars focuses mainly on veterans. Little research addresses the innocent populations caught up in an on-going political upheaval. Our case study includes 450 Syrian refugees 21 years or older living in Lebanon. The results found that 61.56% of the Syrian refugees met the criteria of full PTSD, 8.67% participants fit the criteria of partial PTSD, and 29.78% refugees did not report any symptoms of PTSD. PTSD affects the area of the brain responsible for executive function, including memory and emotional ability. Accordingly, we hypothesize that people with PTSD will be more prone to be conflictive, will have low impulse control, associated with anger and a high desire for revenge. Hence, high prevalence of PTSD among civilians feeds into the cycle of extremism and violence.

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Hopelessness Depression: An Empirical Search For a Theory-Based Subtype

Cited by 24 publications

References 69 publications

Attentional allocation processes in individuals at risk for depression

Attentional allocation processes in individuals at risk for depression

Conservative Orientation as a Determinant of Hopelessness

Living with Ongoing Political Trauma: The Prevalence and Impact of PTSD among Syrian Refugees

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