Predictive value of attentional bias for the recurrence of depression:A 4-year prospective study in remitted depressed individuals

Previous research showed that individuals who were remitted from a depressive disorder displayed heightenedattention towards negative adjectives (e.g., worthless). We tested if this attentional bias (AB) is predictive offuture recurrence of depressive episodes and/or having depressive symptoms at 2- and 4-year follow-up. We useda longitudinal approach within the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) and selected parti-cipants who were remitted from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) (n = 918). AB was measured with a verbalExogenous Cueing Task; using 2 presentation times (500 and 12... Mehr ...