Do positive and negative cognitive styles & response styles predict bipolar risk, mood and academic achievement?

Dodd, Alyson, Jones, Steven and Lobban, Fiona (2013) Do positive and negative cognitive styles & response styles predict bipolar risk, mood and academic achievement? In: Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies 47th Annual Convention, 21st - 25th November, Nashville, USA.

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Abstract

There is evidence that a number of psychological processes, including the ways in which people appraise and respond to their experiences, play an important role in the development and maintenance of bipolar disorder. Also, research suggests that individuals at risk of bipolar disorder experience heightened levels of achievement, creativity and inspiration. Undergraduate students are an achievement-focused population at the peak age of onset of developing bipolar disorder. Understanding the processes which predict positive and negative outcomes in relation to bipolar disorder are important for developing effective, preventive psychotherapeutic approaches. This study explored which factors were associated with flourishing or experiencing difficulties when students at risk of developing bipolar disorder navigate their student experience. Undergraduate students from Lancaster University (n = 275) completed a battery of online questionnaires on a number of psychological processes including positive and negative self appraisals, response styles, inspiration, goal beliefs, positive urgency, mood, bipolar symptoms, and mania risk. When controlling for current symptoms, there were a number of significant associations between cognitive and response styles with mania risk, including a novel multidimensional measure of inspiration. Student records will be followed up to investigate whether mania risk and psychological processes predict academic achievement. Preliminary findings in relation to academic outcomes suggest that mania risk alone does not predict poorer outcomes. Findings will be discussed in the context of psychological models of mood swings and bipolar disorder. Future prospective studies will investigate which of these processes predicts transition to bipolar disorder, as well as course and outcome in those with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Subjects: C800 Psychology
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Alyson Dodd
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2017 09:35
Last Modified: 12 Oct 2019 12:46
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/31773

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