E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study investigated the differential roles of dysfunctional attitudes, automatic thoughts, life events experience, and self-concepts in depression and paranoia. The Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale, the Automatic Thoughts Qestionnaire, the Life Events Experience Questionnaire, the Paranoia Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Self-concept Scale were administered to 331 college students. The results showed that the automatic thoughts and the self-concepts were directly related to depression and paranoia. But, automatic thoghts more highly related with depression than paranoia. The life events experiences were exclusively related to depression. The dysfunctional attitudes were more highly related to paranoia than depression. The moderating hypothesis of dysfunctional attitudes was weakly confirmed in both paranoia and depression. And, the mediating hypothesis of automatic thoughts was exclusively confirmed in depression. The suggestions and the limitations of this study, and the directions of future study were discussed.