TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meiser, Susanne
A1  - Esser, Günter
T1  - How dysfunctional are dysfunctional attitudes?
BT  - a threshold model of dysfunctional attitudes and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents
JF  - Cognitive Therapy and Research
N2  - In order to clarify further the role of Beck’s vulnerability-stress model in the early development of depression, this longitudinal study tested a threshold model of dysfunctional attitudes in children and adolescents. An initially asymptomatic sample of 889 youths aged 9–18 years completed measures of dysfunctional attitudes and depressive symptoms. Twenty months later, participants reported stressful life events and current depressive symptoms. Results support a threshold view of cognitive vulnerability as only dysfunctional attitudes above a certain threshold significantly interacted with life events to predict depressive symptoms. Thus, findings suggest that dysfunctional attitudes must exceed a certain threshold to confer vulnerability to depressive symptomatology in youth. The term “dysfunctional” might therefore only apply to higher levels of the “dysfunctional attitudes” proposed by A. T. Beck. Results also indicate that studies using non-clinical samples may systematically underestimate the effect of dysfunctional attitudes when relying on conventional linear methods.
KW  - Cognitive vulnerability
KW  - Depression
KW  - Children
KW  - Adolescents
KW  - Dysfunctional attitudes
KW  - Threshold models
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-017-9842-0
SN  - 0147-5916
SN  - 1573-2819
VL  - 41
SP  - 730
EP  - 744
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lazuras, Lambros
A1  - Barkoukis, Vassilis
A1  - Mallia, Luca
A1  - Lucidi, Fabio
A1  - Brand, Ralf
T1  - More than a feeling: The role of anticipated regret in predicting doping intentions in adolescent athletes
JF  - Psychology of sport and exercise : PSE ; an official journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology
N2  - Objectives: Anticipated affective responses influence decision-making processes in profound ways. The present study emphasized the role of anticipated regret and assessed the additive and interactive effects of anticipated regret in predicting doping intentions among adolescent athletes. Design: Survey-based, correlational. Method: Two hundred and sixteen adolescent athletes (M age = 17.37, SD = 1.68, 79.1% males) from team sports took part in the study and completed structured and anonymous questionnaires on social cognitive variables relevant to doping use, anticipated regret from engaging in doping and doping intentions. Results: Variance-based structural equation modeling showed that anticipated regret significantly predicted doping intentions over and above the effects of past use of doping substances and nutritional supplements, and other social cognitive predictors, and the overall model predicted 72% of the variance in doping intentions. Further analysis of interaction effects showed that anticipated regret significantly interacted with past use of nutritional supplements, and subjective and descriptive social norms in predicting doping intentions. Conclusions: Anticipated regret represents a theoretically relevant and important predictor of doping intentions in sports, and can have a protective role against pro-doping use intentions among athletes with past use of nutritional supplements. Regret also appears to be relevant to social norms and expectations, thus, highlighting for the first time a normative component in the process linking anticipated affective responses with behavioural intentions. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Anticipated regret
KW  - Doping
KW  - Social norms
KW  - Adolescents
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.03.003
SN  - 1469-0292
SN  - 1878-5476
VL  - 30
SP  - 196
EP  - 204
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -