%0 Journal Article
%T The cognitive specificity of learned helplessness and depression deficits: The role of self-focused cognitions
%J Anxiety research
%D 1991
%A Mikulincer, Mario
%A Glaubman, Hananyah
%A Ben-artzi, Elisheva
%A Grossman, Simona
%V 3
%N 4
%P 273-290
%X Abstract Four experiments assessed similarities and differences in learned helplessness and depression-related deficits in cognitive performance and self-focused cognitions. Subjects answered the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961), were exposed to no-feedback or failure in unsolvable problems, and their response time in a digit comparison task (with or without a memory component, with different number of digits, and different number of mental transformations) and self-focused cognitions were assessed. Learned helplessness and depression deficits were found in a memory task, and the deficits increased with the number of digits. Depression deficits also increased with the number of transformations, and were also found in the no-memory/two transformation condition. Finally, task-related worries were related to learned helplessness deficits, and task-irrelevant thoughts were related to depression deficits. Findings were discussed in terms of the cognitive specificity of learned helplessness and depression deficits.<p />
%G 
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 0891-7779
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779108248757