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| Copyright 1998 by the | Psychology in Spain, Vol 2 No 1, 17-26 |
| Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos |
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Factors which predict the effectiveness of different treatments of mild depression or dysphoria. Research on depression indicates different predictive factors for the development of depressive behaviour. In spite of this, cognitive-behavioural treatment is being applied to the general population of depressive subjects. In this study, two groups were formed from a sample of 236 mild depressive or dysphoric adolescents: the "cognitive dysphoric" group, composed of subjects with depressive attributional style, and the "behavioural dysphoric" group, made up of subjects with deficient social behaviour. We used these two groups to compare the effectiveness of applying a treatment matched with the type of dysphoria and a nonmatched treatment. The ANOVA results indicate that the treatment matched with the type of dysphoria is more effective than the nonmatched treatment.
Las investigaciones sobre la depresión señalan, factores predictores diferentes para el desarrollo de las conductas depresivas. A pesar de ello, el tratamiento cognitivo-conductual se aplica indistintamente a la población general de sujetos depresivos. En este estudio, se forman dos grupos a partir de una muestra de 236 adolescentes con depresión leve o disforia: el grupo "disfórico cognitivo" constituido por sujetos con un estilo atribucional depresivo, y el grupo "disfórico conductual" formado por sujetos con deficiencias en la conducta social. Utilizamos, estos dos grupos para comparar la eficacia de aplicar un tratamiento emparejado y uno no emparejado con el tipo de disforia. Los resultados del ANOVA indican que el tratamiento emparejado con el tipo de disforia es más efectivo que el tratamiento no emparejado.
The original Spanish version of this paper has been previously published in Psicothema, 1997, Vol. 9 No 1, 105-117
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Carmen Rodríguez-Naranjo. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Teatinos, s/n. 29071 Málaga. Spain.
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