Possible selves in major depression

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
L A AllenJ T Apter

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.

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