Depressive self-focus bias following failure: an eye-tracking study among individuals with clinical depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Depression is often characterized by a persistent sense of failure. Cognitive theories of depression suggest that depressed individuals may exhibit a maladaptive cognitive style, characterized by increased self-focus following personal failure. The validity of this proposition, however, is yet to be fully examined. This study aimed to identify the relation between symptoms in major depressive disorder and increased self-focus in failure situations.

Methods

This clinical study involved a cohort of 30 patients diagnosed with and treated for depression. We used an eye-tracking paradigm to observe and analyze gaze direction - indicative of either self-focus or self-avoidance - after remembering a significant failure event.

Results

Contrary to the maladaptive cog

SUBMITTER: Moneger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473297 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature