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Meyers K, Young MA. Illness Attitudes Associated with Seasonal Depressive Symptoms: An Examination Using a Newly Developed Implicit Measure. Depress Res Treat. 2015;2015:397076doi: 10.1155/2015/397076.
Meyers, K., & Young, M. A. (2015). Illness Attitudes Associated with Seasonal Depressive Symptoms: An Examination Using a Newly Developed Implicit Measure. Depression research and treatment, 2015397076. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/397076
Meyers, Katherine, and Young, Michael A. "Illness Attitudes Associated with Seasonal Depressive Symptoms: An Examination Using a Newly Developed Implicit Measure." Depression research and treatment vol. 2015 (2015): 397076. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/397076
Meyers K, Young MA. Illness Attitudes Associated with Seasonal Depressive Symptoms: An Examination Using a Newly Developed Implicit Measure. Depress Res Treat. 2015;2015:397076. doi: 10.1155/2015/397076. Epub 2015 Dec 10. PMID: 26783456; PMCID: PMC4689914.
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Depress Res Treat. 2015;2015:397076. doi: 10.1155/2015/397076. Epub 2015 Dec 10.

Illness Attitudes Associated with Seasonal Depressive Symptoms: An Examination Using a Newly Developed Implicit Measure.

Depression research and treatment

Katherine Meyers, Michael A Young

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.

PMID: 26783456 PMCID: PMC4689914 DOI: 10.1155/2015/397076

Abstract

The Dual Vulnerability Model of seasonal depression posits that seasonal vegetative symptoms are due to a physiological vulnerability, but cognitive and mood symptoms are the result of negative appraisal of vegetative changes. In addition, rumination may be associated with stronger negative attitudes toward vegetative symptoms. This is the first study to examine implicit attitudes toward vegetative symptoms. We hypothesized that illness attitudes about fatigue moderate the relationship between the severity of vegetative symptoms and the severity of cognitive symptoms and that the illness attitudes are associated with rumination. This study also developed an implicit method to assess the appraisal of fatigue as indicating illness. Results supported both hypotheses. Illness attitudes toward fatigue moderated the relationship between vegetative symptoms and cognitive symptoms. Ruminative response style was positively associated with implicit illness attitudes towards fatigue. The study provides support for the role of negative appraisals of vegetative symptoms in the development of cognitive and mood seasonal depressive symptoms.

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