"Why bother? It's gonna hurt me": the role of interpersonal cognitive biases in the development of anxiety and depression

Thesis

Child and adolescent mood and anxiety symptoms are common and debilitating, with long-term effects on well-being. Research presented in this thesis examines interpersonal cognitive factors in the emergence of anxious and depressive symptoms in late childhood through to early adulthood. The thesis considers this issue using three main approaches. For the first, data are presented showing that biases in the appraisals of social situations are the aspects of interpersonal cognition most close...

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Authors: Belli, S

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: CBM; CBM-I; depression; cognitive bias; anxiety; adolescence; adolescents; interpretive bias
• Subjects: Developmental psychology; Social cognition; Interpersonal behaviour; Experimental psychology; Emotion; Cognition