TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - The cognitive specificity of learned helplessness and depression deficits: The role of self-focused cognitions
JO  - Anxiety research
A1  - Mikulincer, Mario
A1  - Glaubman, Hananyah
A1  - Ben-artzi, Elisheva
A1  - Grossman, Simona
SP  - 273
EP  - 290
VL  - 3
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0891-7779
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08917779108248757
ID  - ref1
ER  -