Depression, goals and motivations in people with persecutory delusions
Depression, goals and motivations in people with persecutory delusions
Goals motivated by avoidance, rather than approach, and by external, rather than internal, motivations, have been implicated in the persistence of depression. This paper reports the first empirical investigation of the goals and motivations of individuals experiencing persecutory delusions. Participants completed assessments of goals and motivations, depression and paranoia. Higher levels of depression were associated with more avoidant motivations and lower goal self-concordance, but not with numbers of approach motivations. More avoidant motivations were also associated with greater paranoia. The findings are consistent with proposals that avoidant and externally-motivated goal pursuit could contribute to symptom persistence.
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Vorontsova, Natasha
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Ellett, Lyn
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August 2017
Vorontsova, Natasha
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Ellett, Lyn
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Vorontsova, Natasha and Ellett, Lyn
(2017)
Depression, goals and motivations in people with persecutory delusions.
Psychiatry Research, 254, .
(doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2017.04.041).
Abstract
Goals motivated by avoidance, rather than approach, and by external, rather than internal, motivations, have been implicated in the persistence of depression. This paper reports the first empirical investigation of the goals and motivations of individuals experiencing persecutory delusions. Participants completed assessments of goals and motivations, depression and paranoia. Higher levels of depression were associated with more avoidant motivations and lower goal self-concordance, but not with numbers of approach motivations. More avoidant motivations were also associated with greater paranoia. The findings are consistent with proposals that avoidant and externally-motivated goal pursuit could contribute to symptom persistence.
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/453761
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