An interactive-synergetic approach to the assessment of personality vulnerability to depression: Illustration using the adolescent version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
✍ Scribed by Golan Shahar; Elizabeth F. Gallagher; Sidney J. Blatt; Gabriel P. Kuperminc; Bonnie J. Leadbeater
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Research on personality vulnerability to depression is characterized by a "main effect" approach, often at the expense of examining interactions among various dimensions of vulnerability. To compare the "main effect" and "interactive-synergetic" approaches, we utilized data from a longitudinal study of adolescent adjustment. Focusing on dependency, self-criticism, and efficacy, the three factors of the adolescent version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; Blatt, Schaffer, Bers, & Quinlan, 1992), we found support for the interactive-synergetic approach. Dependency and self-criticism interacted in predicting changes in depressive and internalizing symptoms (under low efficacy), and among boys-changes in internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Results illuminate the synergetic interplay among dimensions of risk and resilience in clinical research and practice.