TY - JOUR
AU - Andrews, Bernice
AB - COMMENTARIES Chris R. Brewin MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit Institute of Psychiatry University of London Bernice Andrews Department of Social Policy and Social Science Royal Holloway and Bedford New College University of London In cognitive theories of depression, vulnerable individuals tionality of cognitions. For example, in the literature on mar- are typically believed to possess a negative self-schema, a ital cognition, it is frequently noted that in distressed mar- generic negative self-representation based on an accumula- riages each partner is likely to attribute negative outcomes to tion of adverse past experiences. The search for measures of stable, intentional causal factors residing in the other partner, cognitive vulnerability has therefore focused on question- and it has thus been suggested that such attributions are naire-based descriptions of individuals' generic knowledge dysfunctional. Andrews (1992) recently pointed out that, in about themselves in the form of attributional styles, dysfunc- the context of a violent marriage, wives' attributions of the tional beliefs, and personality traits (such as sociotropylau- violence to their husbands' stable characteristics may be ex- tonomy or dependencylself-criticism). Scores are based on tremely functional in promoting help-seeking from police responses to hypothetical events or to global descriptive and professional agencies. Similarly, 
TI - The Role of Context and Autobiography in Cognitive Assessment
JF - Psychological Inquiry
DO - 10.1207/s15327965pli0303_3
DA - 1992-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/the-role-of-context-and-autobiography-in-cognitive-assessment-9CI49MWPD5
SP - 229
EP - 230
VL - 3
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -