Schema Theory in Depression

Negative thinking: Cognitive products and schema structures.

“…More longitudinal research is necessary to test the causal status of cognitive products and schema structures in depression. As Clark and Guyitt (2016) pointed out, researchers also need to ascertain whether self-report measures are the optimal ways to assess schema content or whether responses to information processing tasks and other indices that involve less potential demand characteristics may be more sensitive predictors.…”

“…Fortunately, cognitive vulnerability research is becoming less siloed and more multidisciplinary, which will afford more complex tests of some of the more recent integrative models being developed (e.g., De Raedt & Koster, 2010;Disner et al, 2011). Research is also necessary to ascertain whether cognitive content or schema structures are more important predictors of cognitive vulnerability to depression (Clark & Guyitt, 2016;Dozois & Beck, 2008). Multiwave longitudinal research is also needed to test the causal status of various cognitive risk factors in depression and how cognitive vulnerability develops and changes over time.…”

The Importance of Self-Compassion in Terms of Self Psychology

“…Beck's cognitive theory of depression involves three cognitive aspects-the cognitive triad, schemata, and cognitive distortions. A negative schema represents a person's generalized attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions about the cognitive triad, which includes negative thinking patterns about the self, the future, and the world [27,29,30], which lead to cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are the results of a dysfunctional schema, which involves faulty informational-processing while engaged in the self-reflective and self-genitive process, and then exhibiting a negative self-referential bias [29].…”

“…A negative schema represents a person's generalized attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions about the cognitive triad, which includes negative thinking patterns about the self, the future, and the world [27,29,30], which lead to cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are the results of a dysfunctional schema, which involves faulty informational-processing while engaged in the self-reflective and self-genitive process, and then exhibiting a negative self-referential bias [29]. While different classes of self-schema-Intermediary beliefs, conditional rules, and core beliefs [29]-are being seen to guide a person's interpretation of experiences and regulate their emotional response, they have been seen to be representable by self-referenced cognitive aspects.…”

“…Cognitive distortions are the results of a dysfunctional schema, which involves faulty informational-processing while engaged in the self-reflective and self-genitive process, and then exhibiting a negative self-referential bias [29]. While different classes of self-schema-Intermediary beliefs, conditional rules, and core beliefs [29]-are being seen to guide a person's interpretation of experiences and regulate their emotional response, they have been seen to be representable by self-referenced cognitive aspects. Therefore, other than components under the self-concept theory [31,32], it is likely that showing compassion towards oneself also plays a role within the interpretation of experiences, as a result of self-compassion also being used as a form of self-schema [33][34][35].…”