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The focus of pessimism in performance assessments by the depressed
1Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
The British Journal of Clinical Psychology
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
The study concerns the microstructure of pessimistic judgements concerning personal performance in the depressed. The cognitive bias hypothesis was only supported for global estimates of performance and not for trial-by-trial decisions. This weakens the view that there is a fixed cognitive pessimistic bias and leaves open the possibility either that differences relate to the assessment of frequency or to protective strategies operated by the depressed.