Depression-Related Negative Cognition: Mood-State and Trait Dependent Properties

This study tested the state-trait model of negative cognition (D. C. Zuroff, S. J. Blatt, C. A. Sanislow, C. M. Bondi, & P. A. Pilkonis, 1999) among people who were hospitalized for depression (N = 121). Assessments of cognitive bias, dysfunctional attitudes, and depression severity were completed during psychiatric hospitalization, following a 6-month course of outpatient treatment, and 1 year after completion of outpatient treatment....