Tasneem Rehna, Rubina Hanif

Depression, Cognitive Errors, and Anxiety among Adolescents

A Comparison of Depressed and Non-Depressed

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Produktbeschreibung

There is a need of time to create awareness about adolescent depression, its associated factors especially cognitive correlates in clinical and normal population, so that appropriate and effective interventions and preventive measures can be undertaken. Thus the present study was conducted to explore the relationship between cognitive errors and anxiety and their role in depression among adolescents.The study also aimed to examine differences of cognitive errors and anxiety among depressed and non-depressed sample of adolescents. To conduct this study, clinicaly diagnosed depressed adolescents were taken from Hospitals of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, Pakistan. A comparitive was also taken from normal population. The findings suggested that depressed adolescents show more cognitive errors and high level of anxiety as compared to non- depressed group. The role of gender, family system and social economic system were also explored.There are significant implications of the higher rates of cognitive errors among depressed individuals. The understanding of the correlates and mechanism of cognitive errors would likely shed light on important aspects of vulnerability factors of recurrence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9783846589182
• ISBN-10: 3846589187
• Artikelnr.: 35220873

Autorenporträt

Tasnim Rehna is a Ph.D research scholar at National Institute of Psychology, Centre of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (Pakistan). Her primary interests are Developmental Psychopathology and Educational Psychology.Rubina Hanif (Ph.D) is working as Assistant Professor-TTS at National Institute of Psychology,Quaid-i-Azam University.