Interrelations among negative core beliefs, attachment anxiety and low self-directedness, putative central constructs of depression vulnerabilities in cognitive, attachment and psychobiological personality theories

According to Beck's cognitive model of depression (Clark  et al., 1999), firstly negative core beliefs are formed in early life as a result of negative interactions with significant others. These core beliefs refer to self-deficiencies in basic issues for humans such as survival and attachment, and are expressed in brief and definite statements such as “I am helpless” and “I am unlovable”. Negative core beliefs give rise to negative self-schemas or dysfunctional attitudes in the forms of conditional rules, imperative statements or compensatory beliefs.
Source: Psychiatry Research - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research