Developmental Origins of Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression: Parenting, Cognitive, and Inferential Feedback Styles of the Parents of Individuals at High and Low Cognitive Risk for Depression

摘要: In this study, we examined the role of three social learning mechanisms in development undergraduates' depressogenic cognitive styles: modeling parents' negative styles; inferential feedback from parents regarding causes and consequences stressful events child's life; parenting practices. We obtained partial support for each hypotheses. Compared to cognitively low-risk students, high-risk students' mothers exhibited more dysfunctional attitudes styles themselves; fathers showed less emotional acceptance warmth; both communicated stable, global attributional consequence their children's lives. addition, fathers' predicted undergraduate likelihood developing an episode major or minor depression subtype hopelessness during a 2.5-year prospective follow-up period, with some these predictive associations mediated totally part by vulnerability status.