A comparison of vulnerability factors in patients with persistent and remitting lifetime symptom course of depression.

In the second step, with all variables entered into the equation the AAQ sumscore, B =−.11, SE =.05, Wald =5.36, df =1, p =.02, emerged as a significant predictor, while CTQ Emotional Abuse was reduced to be only marginally significant suggesting that the effect of childhood emotional abuse was mediated through experiential avoidance. 3.3 Mediational analyses In order to more formally test this assumption, we computed direct and indirect effects of childhood emotional abuse on the course of the disorder (remitting versus persistent) using logistic regressions and applying the bootstrapping approach by Preacher and Hayes (2004) .

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