01325nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001500118653002400133653002400157653002500181100002200206700001900228700001900247245005000266300001200316490000600328520074500334022001401079020001401093       1999                            d  c07/1999bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aDepression10aAttributional Style10acognitive processes10alearned helplessness1 aAntonio Maldonado1 aGriselda Luque1 aAmparo Herrera00aCognition, attributional style and depression  a161-1740 v53 aThe main objective of this study was the experimental analysis of the influence of attributional style and negative cognitions on the university students depressive state. Results showed that both attributions (measured by the ASQ, Attributional Style Questionaire) and negative thinking (measured by the CTI, Cognitive Triad Inventory) correlated with severity of depression measured by the BDI, althoguh CTI correlations were significantly higher that those of the ASQ. Moreover, only CTI measures of self, the world and the future discriminated among depressed, disforic and normal groups according to the Beck cognitive model of Depressión. These results were also analysed according to the reformulated theory of Learned Helplessness.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437