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JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 109, Issue 4, Pages 787-791Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.109.4.787
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH29618-13, MH39139] Funding Source: Medline
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Research on life stress has been characterized by inconsistent results, which some researchers attribute to different assessment methodologies. Generally, studies have used either self-report checklists or investigator-based interviews. To test whether different results are derived from these approaches, the authors compared information from a self-report measure of life stress with the additional data available from a follow-up investigator-based measure in prospectively predicting the outcome of treatment for recurrent major depression. The 2 approaches produced different results, with investigator-based life events predicting lower probability of remission and self-report life events either predicting increased likelihood of remission or not predicting at all. The results demonstrated that methodology may account for some of the inconsistencies in the life stress literature.
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