title: Possible selves in major depression.
abstract: Ratings of possible selves and resultant self-concept discrepancies were examined in 25 patients diagnosed with major depression and 25 control subjects. Self-concept discrepancies significantly discriminated patients from controls. The presence of negative features in the self-schema was a stronger indicator of depressive symptomatology than was the absence of positive self-appraisal. Depressives' future projections of self were less pessimistic than predicted by cognitive theories of depression.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Biomedical Research, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Woolfolk
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gara
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Apter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012938:Social Perception