Erle, Thorsten M., Barth, Niklas and Topolinski, Sascha ORCID: 0000-0001-9295-3463
(2019).
Egocentrism in sub-clinical depression.
Cogn. Emot., 33 (6).
S. 1239 - 1249.
ABINGDON:
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD.
ISSN 1464-0600
Abstract
Depression is marked by rigid thinking and the inability to generate different and more positive views on the self. The current study conceptualises this a perspective-taking deficit, which is defined as a deficit in the ability to overcome one's egocentrism. Previous research has demonstrated that individuals with depression are impaired in Theory of Mind reasoning and empathy - two social cognitions that involve cognitive and affective perspective-taking. Here, it was investigated whether these deficits generalise to visuo-spatial perspective-taking. To test this, a convenience sample (N = 268; n = 62 high depressive symptoms; n = 206 healthy control participants) completed a test-battery including measures of cognitive and visuo-spatial perspective-taking and closely matched cognitive and visuo-spatial control tasks. The results showed that individuals exhibiting high levels of depressive symptoms were specifically impaired on both perspective-taking tasks but performed equally well on the control tasks. Interventions to combat rigid thinking in depression are discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-144174 | ||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/02699931.2018.1552120 | ||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cogn. Emot. | ||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 33 | ||||||||||||||||
Number: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 1239 - 1249 | ||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1464-0600 | ||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Human Sciences | ||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Psychology | ||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14417 |
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