Abstract

GONZALEZ CIFUENTES, Carlos Eduardo; ANGEL DE GREIFF, Elizabeth  and  AVENDANO PRIETO, Bertha Lucía. Comorbidity between anxiety and depression: empirical assessment model helplessness hopelessness. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2011, vol.5, n.1, pp.59-72. ISSN 1900-2386.

This study is founded on the helplessness hopelessness theory which propose several hypothesis about the relationships between anxiety, depression and their comorbidity. The sample is compoused by 526 undergraduate volunteer students. The principal findings point out that the three predictive variable model: intolerance to uncertainty, helplessness and hopelessnes is superior than alternative simpler models with one or two predictive variables for identifying and discriminating anxious, depressive and comorbid individuals. According to the results of the multinomial logistic regression (n=205) carry out with the participants in the upper quartile for anxiety, depression or both, there was found that the model of three predictive variables (chi 354,791 y P 0,000) correctly identified the 93% of the cases. Other important hypothesis inferred from the theory received empirical support too.

Keywords : Depression; anxiety; comorbidity; helplessness hopelessness theory.

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