ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Theory Building through Generalizability: What Diverse Samples Can Teach Us about Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression
- Lily Brouder
University of Notre Dame - Hugh Burke
University of Notre Dame - Marissa Vander Missen
University of Notre Dame - Gerald Haeffel
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Abstract
We conducted five studies to evaluate the generalizability of the cognitive vulnerability to depression hypothesis in samples of WEIRD and non-WEIRD participants. Results corroborated some aspects of hopelessness theory, but also revealed aspects of the theory that need to be improved to account for cultural context.
Psychopathology
