Dysfunctional thinking in major depressive disorder: A deficit in metacognitive monitoring?
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Speed of response to attitudinal statements has predictive behavioral significance and reflects the relative contributions of "automatic" access to precomputed schematic representations and slower "controlled" on-line processing. Latencies to Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (A. N. Weissman & A. T. Beck, 1978) and neutral statements were measured in 30 depressed patients and 30 nondepressed controls. For controls, responses incompatible with functional schemas were markedly slowed. This pattern of latencies is consistent with the operation of metacognitive monitoring of potential dysfunctional responses, dependent on limited controlled processing resources. For patients, there was no evidence of selective slowing for these or any other form of response. Results suggest that depressed patients have a deficit of metacognitive monitoring of dysfunctional cognitive products.
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In MBCT, meta-cognitive monitoring in relation to the products of dysfunctional schemas is developed.
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- Authors
- Sheppard, L. C., & Teasdale, J. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 768-776
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W4249101504
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- major depressive disorder, dysfunctional thinking, metacognitive monitoring, metacognition, cognitive distortions, depression
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Attention, Attitude, Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Major, Female, Generalization, Psychological, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Reaction Time, Thinking
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