期刊
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 4, 期 2, 页码 229-238出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2167702615591951
关键词
unipolar depression; kindling; life events; life stress; cycle acceleration
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [MH40501, MH50522]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) [DA12951]
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
The kindling hypothesis for depression predicts that with more recurrences, the interval between successive recurrences decreases. Findings from studies with samples of unipolar and bipolar individuals generally have been consistent with this premise. However, previous research is subject to a statistical artifact. Slater's fallacy maintains that these intermorbid intervals appear to decrease because highly recurrent individuals with consistently shorter intervals become a larger proportion of the remaining sample with each recurrence. Correcting for this bias, research on bipolar disorder no longer evidences such an effect. We predicted similar results for unipolar depression when correcting for this bias and proposed an alternative model: Individuals who are highly recurrent have consistently shorter intermorbid periods, even after the very first lifetime episode. As predicted, correcting for Slater's fallacy removed the appearance of decreasing intermorbid intervals. Furthermore, highly recurrent individuals exhibited shorter intermorbid intervals in general, and for the very first interval, thereby supporting the alternative model.
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