Hopelessness: The role of depression, future directed thinking and cognitive vulnerability

O’Connor, Rory C.; Connery, Hazel; Cheyne, William M.

doi:10.1080/713690188

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“…Demographics and injury characteristics of the sample presented in Figure 1 show that age, gender, cause and type of injury are consistent with the trends in SCI populations in Australian 24 and international literature. 25 Procedures Ethics.…”

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Health-related outcomes of people with spinal cord injury—a 10 year longitudinal study

Dorsett

Geraghty

2008

Spinal Cord

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Study Design: Longitudinal panel design over 10 years. Objectives: To describe the health outcomes for people with spinal cord injury and identify how indicators of health change over time. Setting: Queensland, Australia. Methods: A structured interview consisting of measures of perceived health, medical service utilization, hospitalization and pressure sore occurrence was administered on six occasions over 10 years after discharge from the hospital following the initial rehabilitation episode. Results: The majority of respondents were relatively healthy over the course of the 10-year study and required minimal medical interventions or hospitalization. There was however a group of up to 20% of respondents who required extensive medical intervention, including hospitalization and pressure sore management. Conclusion: The findings have significant implications for health-care policy and strategic planning for the ongoing management of spinal cord injury. A biopsychosocial approach combining patient education, cognitive behavioral interventions, screening and treatment for affective disorders and environmental interventions is recommended to facilitate optimal health outcomes for people with spinal cord injury over the long term.

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Health-related outcomes of people with spinal cord injury—a 10 year longitudinal study

Dorsett

Geraghty

2008

Spinal Cord

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“…On the other hand, Beck, Steer, Kovacs and Garrison (1985) state that depressed individuals with a tendency of hopelessness, have a higher intention to commit suicide compared to other depressed individuals who do not have such tendencies and that hopelessness is in fact a more important risk factor for suicidal tendencies compared to depression. At the same time, studies in the literature indicate that hopelessness is related to depression and suicidal tendencies and is a meaningful predictor of them both (Alford, Lester, Patel, Buchanan and Giunta, 1995;Beck et al, 1985;Nimeus, Traskman-Bendz and Alsen, 1997;O'Connor, Connery and Cheyne, 2000;Young, Fogg, Scheftner, Fawcett, Akiskal and Maser, 1996). In such case, if high school students' life satisfaction can be increased, while decreasing their hopelessness levels, risk factors such as suffering from depression and suicidal tendencies may also be prevented.…”

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The Study of Relations between Life Satisfaction, Burnout, Work Engagement and Hopelessness of High School Students

Çapri

Gündüz

Akbay

2013

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The purpose of this research is to determine the relations between high school students' life satisfaction, burnout, work engagement and hopelessness scores and examine the contribution of their burnout, work engagement and hopelessness scores in the prediction of their life satisfaction scores. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS), Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Survey (UWES-SS), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) and "Personal Information Form", has been applied on a total of 461 students, 225 (%48.8) of them being girl students and 236 (%51.2) of them being male students, who were continuing the 12th grade in varying high school classes during the 2011-2012 school year within the provincial boundaries of the Mersin Municipality and had voluntarily accepted to participate in the research. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis have been used in the analysis of the data. It is observed as a result of the analyses that high school students' life satisfaction scores have a negative relation with exhaustion, cynicism, efficacy and hopelessness scores; on the other hand, these have a positive relation with vigor, dedication and absorption scores. Also it has been observed that life satisfaction scores only predict hopelessness, absorption and efficacy in a meaningful way.

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“…Thus, it will be critical to determine whether the CSQ findings (and the hopelessness theory more generally) apply to community and clinical samples, and can be translated into other languages. To this end, O'Connor, Connery, and Cheyne, (2000) modified the scenarios on the CSQ to make them applicable to parasuide patients in a hospital setting. Results showed that the modified CSQ was a significant predictor of hopelessness in this hospitalized sample.…”

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Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: Development and validation of the cognitive style questionnaire

Haeffel

Gibb

Metalsky

et al. 2008

Clinical Psychology Review

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The Cognitive Style Questionnaire (CSQ) measures the cognitive vulnerability factor featured in the hopelessness theory of depression. The CSQ has been used in over 30 published studies since its inception, yet detailed information about the psychometric and validity properties of this instrument has yet to be published. In this article, we describe the development of the CSQ and review reliability and validity evidence. Findings to date using college samples, indicate that the CSQ is a reliable measure of cognitive vulnerability with a high degree of construct validity.According to the hopelessness theory of depression (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989), some individuals have a cognitive vulnerability that interacts with negative life events to increase the likelihood of depression. Hopelessness theory defines cognitive vulnerability as the tendency of an individual to make particular kinds of inferences about the cause, consequences, and self-worth implications of negative life events. Specifically, when faced with a negative life event, an individual who has a cognitive vulnerability is likely to: (a) attribute the event to stable and global causes; (b) view the event as likely to lead to other negative consequences; and (c) construe the event as implying that he or she is unworthy or deficient. Individuals who generate these negative inferences are hypothesized to be at risk for hopelessness, which is viewed as a proximal and sufficient cause of depression.

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Hopelessness: The role of depression, future directed thinking and cognitive vulnerability

Cited by 88 publications

References 8 publications

Health-related outcomes of people with spinal cord injury—a 10 year longitudinal study

Health-related outcomes of people with spinal cord injury—a 10 year longitudinal study

The Study of Relations between Life Satisfaction, Burnout, Work Engagement and Hopelessness of High School Students

Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: Development and validation of the cognitive style questionnaire

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