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. 2009 Dec 1;2(4):354.
doi: 10.1521/ijct.2009.2.4.354.

Self-focused Cognitive Styles and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Concurrent and Prospective Associations

Lauren B Alloy  1 , Lyn Y Abramson, Megan Flynn, Richard T Liu, David A Grant, Shari Jager-Hyman, Wayne G Whitehouse
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Self-focused Cognitive Styles and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Concurrent and Prospective Associations

Lauren B Alloy et al. Int J Cogn Ther. .

Abstract

We examined concurrent and prospective associations of self-focused cognitive styles with bipolar spectrum disorders. Controlling for depressive and hypomanic/manic symptoms, 125 individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders scored higher than 149 demographically similar normal controls on the rumination scale of the Response Styles Questionnaire (RSQ) and the private self-consciousness subscale of the Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS). The two groups did not differ on the distraction scale of the RSQ or the public self-consciousness and social anxiety subscales of the SCS. In addition, among the bipolar individuals, controlling for initial depressive and hypomanic/manic symptoms, rumination predicted the number, but not the likelihood of onset, of depressive episodes, whereas private self-consciousness predicted the likelihood of onset, but not the number, of hypomanic/manic episodes over a 3.5-year follow-up.

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