Wilkinson I M, Blackburn I M
Br J Clin Psychol. 1981 Nov;20(4):283-92. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1981.tb00528.x.
Depressed and recovered depressed patients were compared with a recovered mixed psychiatric group and normal controls on three cognitive measures relating to Beck's theory of depression. Levels of depression and neuroticism were also assessed. Cognitive response was not found to differentiate the recovered depressed patients from the two control groups, though depressed patients were consistently differentiated. The three cognitive measures, of which one was devised by the authors, intercorrelated highly among themselves and with levels of depression and neuroticism. When levels of depression and neuroticism were controlled for, the differences between the depressed group, recovered depressed and control groups, disappeared, except on one of the measures. The implications of the findings for the cognitive theory of depression are discussed.
将抑郁症患者及康复后的抑郁症患者与康复后的混合精神疾病组和正常对照组，就与贝克抑郁症理论相关的三项认知指标进行了比较。同时还评估了抑郁水平和神经质水平。尽管抑郁症患者始终存在差异，但未发现认知反应能将康复后的抑郁症患者与两个对照组区分开来。这三项认知指标（其中一项由作者设计）彼此之间以及与抑郁水平和神经质水平都高度相关。在控制了抑郁水平和神经质水平后，抑郁症组、康复后的抑郁症组与对照组之间的差异消失了，但有一项指标除外。本文讨论了这些研究结果对抑郁症认知理论的意义。
