Cognitive Triad and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Specificity and Overlap.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depressive symptoms and the understanding of vulnerability factors that facilitate their onset is pivotal. In this study, we focused on Beck's cognitive triad, namely its three-fold structure, comprising views of the self, world, and future. Despite its crucial role in the cognitive theory of depression, the relationship between the cognitive triad and depressive symptoms in adolescence is still unclear. In our study, we adopted a meta-analytic commonality analysis approach, in order to clarify whether the three components of the triad overlap in accounting for depressive symptoms, or they show distinct profiles of association. By relying on six independent samples of early adolescents (age range = 13-14: n = 174, 66% female, n = 347,

SUBMITTER: Marchetti I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272270 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature