Cognitive Factors
Cognitive factors contributing to depression includes:
1. Cognitive style
2. Negative attribution style
COGNITIVE STYLE
The cognitive model of depression, by Aaron Beck (1967), gives a good explanation to depression in terms of the cognitive factor. Both thoughts and beliefs create a person’s personality and emotion. Therefore our thoughts and beliefs do affect the way we attribute to external things. Beck basically says that depression is a result of cognitive distortions. The cognitive model itself includes three components:
1. The cognitive triad: Having a negative view of oneself, the worldview, and the future.
2. Schemas: A schema is how we understand the world and how we feel with it.
3. Cognitive errors: False beliefs and thoughts about reality. The more false beliefs, the
more likely one is to suffer from depression.
These three factors together combine a distorted thinking style and can make a person blinded from reality.
1. The cognitive triad: Having a negative view of oneself, the worldview, and the future.
2. Schemas: A schema is how we understand the world and how we feel with it.
3. Cognitive errors: False beliefs and thoughts about reality. The more false beliefs, the
more likely one is to suffer from depression.
These three factors together combine a distorted thinking style and can make a person blinded from reality.
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Source: Slant Magazine
NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTION STYLE
Other than that, people with depression developed a negative attribution style. The negative attribution style is when a person beliefs that negative events are “uncontrollable, stable, and global” (DiMaria). Which basically means that they think that bad things will happen to them all the time and they are bound to it. Both theories are actually similar. They are both suggesting that depression will attack people who think negatively and has a false view of the reality.
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DiMaria, Lauren. "What Is Attributional Style and How Does It Relate to Depression?" About.com: Do More. N.p.,
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