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Cognitive-personality vulnerability and event perception in the prediction of depression in Chinese women of Hong Kong
Date Issued
2006
Citation
Leung, E. Y., & Tang, S. K. (30 May 2006). Cognitive-personality vulnerability and event perception in the prediction of depression in Chinese women of Hong Kong. 1st Asian Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We aimed to examine direct and indirect effects of cognitive-personality vulnerability (CPV) on depression in Chinese women. We also tested the personality-event congruence hypothesis, and specifically, the sociotropy dimension of CPV would match with interpersonal events and the solitude-autonomy dimension of CPV would match with achievement events to predict depression. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data (six months) were obtained from 161 female depressed outpatients and 135 non-depressed women in the community. We noted that the diathesis-stress relationship existed between CPV and event perception through both direct and indirect paths. However, we only found partial support to the more specific personality-event congruence hypothesis. In particular, for the clinically depressed group, direct effects of solitude-autonomy and goal loss event perception were robust predictors of depression at T1 and T2. Sociotropy at T1 also exerted an effect on goal loss at T2, which was linked directly to depression at T2. For the non-depressed community group, sociotropy interacted with goal loss at T1 and solitude-autonomy interacted with relation loss at T1 to influence depression at T1. The solitude-autonomy dimension also exerted an effect on depression at T1 to influence depression at T2. Based on these findings, we proposed a simplified CPV model with
which depression can be predicted by direct effects of solitude-autonomy and indirect effects of sociotropy via goal loss event perception. Limitations and treatment implications were also discussed.
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