David J A Dozois
Biographic Data
| ID | 195039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J A Dozois |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dozois |
| SIGNATURE | DOZOIS D J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0857-0679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A dyadic daily diary investigation of partner-schema structures on relational well-being and depressed mood
Partner-schemas structures (i.e., the degree of interconnectedness in the beliefs one holds about their romantic partner) have been associated with relationship well-being and, to a lesser degree, depression, in cross-sectional research. However, little is known about how schema structures may impact couples in their daily lives. To address this gap, 260 couples were sampled at baseline to assess partner-schema structures, then surveyed for 14 da…
Does controlling for baseline stressful life events clarify or cloud the stress generation effect? A response to Dang and Xiao (2025)
Stress generation theory suggests that individuals with psychiatric disorders have characteristics or engage in behaviors that increase the amount of dependent (self-generated), but not independent (fateful), stress they are exposed to. Our recent comprehensive meta-analysis amalgamating over 30 years of stress generation research (Rnic et al., 2023) documented stress generation effects broadly across various forms of psychopathology. Since the p…
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task
The Psychological Distance Scaling Task (PDST), originally developed to assess self‐schema structures, has recently been adapted to assess partner‐schema structures (PSS, i.e., the degree of interconnectedness in one's beliefs about their romantic partner). However, the psychometric properties of the partner version of the PDST have yet to be assessed. Across four studies ( N = 1134), we tested whether PSS (1) were associated with relationship an…
Treatment of psychosocial risk factors in depression.
The vicious cycle of psychopathology and stressful life events: A meta-analytic review testing the stress generation model
10) stress. We also identified unique patterns of effects across specific types of psychopathology. For example, effects were larger for depression than anxiety. Furthermore, effects were sometimes larger in studies with younger participants, shorter time lags between assessments, checklist measures of stress, and for interpersonal stressors. Finally, a multilevel meta-analytic structural equation model suggested that dependent stress exacerbates…
Depressive cognition on Twitter
Reducing the Stigma of Depression Among Asian Students: A Social Norm Approach
In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma toward people with depression than do Europeans. Possible methods of reducing this discrepancy have rarely been explored. Asian undergraduate students ( n = 132) were presented with one of four antistigma videos with two actresses: one portraying a student with depression and the other a professor. The videos used the concept of social proof, presenting either positive or negative d…
Accounting for Differences in Depression Stigma Between Canadian Asians and Europeans
Stigma is an important barrier to recovery from depression. Individuals of Asian origin show greater levels of depression stigma compared with individuals of European origin. This study examined the mediators of the relationship between ethnicity and depression stigma in a North American context. A sample of university students, including 199 Canadian Europeans and 249 Canadian Asians, completed a variety of measures through an online study. Stig…
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
Early maladaptive schemas, styles of humor and aggression
The relationship between early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and psychopathology is thought to be mediated by the use of maladaptive compensatory coping and deficits in adaptive coping. One form of coping that might be affected by EMSs is an individual's style of humor, which can be adaptive or maladaptive. This study examined the relationships among EMS domains, styles of humor, and aggression. The EMS domain of Impaired Limits was most consistentl…
Disturbances of emotional awareness and expression in posttraumatic stress disorder: Meta-mood, emotion regulation, mindfulness, and interference of emotional expressiveness
Demonstrations of deficient emotional awareness (EA) in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) measured by alexithymia were extended to trait metamood, difficulties in emotion regulation, and trait mindfulness in 55 women with PTSD related to history of interpersonal/familial maltreatment. Perceived causes of interference of emotional expression were also identified that fully mediated the association between PTSD diagnostic status and alexithymic …
Self-referential processing in women with PTSD: Affective and neural response
Social emotions and emotional valence during imagery in women with PTSD: Affective and neural correlates
Ruminative thought style and depressed mood
Recent research has suggested that the measure most commonly used to assess rumination, the Response Style Questionnaire (RSQ; L. D. Butler & S. Nolen‐Hoeksema, 1994), may be heavily biased by depressive symptoms, thereby restricting the scope of research exploring this construct. This article offers a broader conceptualization of rumination, which includes positive, negative, and neutral thoughts as well as past and future‐oriented thoughts. The…
Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression
Sociotropy and autonomy are personality dimensions that represent vulnerabilities for depression, although relatively little is known about the social-psychological mechanisms underlying this association. The present research tested associations between personality-vulnerability dimensions, depressive symptoms, and positive and negative styles of humor in undergraduates as one means of characterizing the social interaction patterns of sociotropic…
Risk factors in depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, affecting 14% of all people at some point in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, but beyond gender there are a variety of risk factors that influence the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing depression. Here it consolidates research findings on risk factors into one source, for ease of reference for both researchers and clinicians in practice. The…
A psychometric evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory–II.
This article provides psychometric information on the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), with respect to internal consistency, factorial validity, and gender differences. Both measures demonstrated high internal reliability in the full student sample. Significant differences between the mean BDI and BDI-II scores necessitated the development of new cutoffs for analogue research …
Early maladaptive schemas, styles of humor and aggression
The relationship between early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and psychopathology is thought to be mediated by the use of maladaptive compensatory coping and deficits in adaptive coping. One form of coping that might be affected by EMSs is an individual's style of humor, which can be adaptive or maladaptive. This study examined the relationships among EMS domains, styles of humor, and aggression. The EMS domain of Impaired Limits was most consistentl…
Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression
Sociotropy and autonomy are personality dimensions that represent vulnerabilities for depression, although relatively little is known about the social-psychological mechanisms underlying this association. The present research tested associations between personality-vulnerability dimensions, depressive symptoms, and positive and negative styles of humor in undergraduates as one means of characterizing the social interaction patterns of sociotropic…
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
Accounting for Differences in Depression Stigma Between Canadian Asians and Europeans
Stigma is an important barrier to recovery from depression. Individuals of Asian origin show greater levels of depression stigma compared with individuals of European origin. This study examined the mediators of the relationship between ethnicity and depression stigma in a North American context. A sample of university students, including 199 Canadian Europeans and 249 Canadian Asians, completed a variety of measures through an online study. Stig…
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task
The Psychological Distance Scaling Task (PDST), originally developed to assess self‐schema structures, has recently been adapted to assess partner‐schema structures (PSS, i.e., the degree of interconnectedness in one's beliefs about their romantic partner). However, the psychometric properties of the partner version of the PDST have yet to be assessed. Across four studies ( N = 1134), we tested whether PSS (1) were associated with relationship an…
Depressive cognition on Twitter
Reducing the Stigma of Depression Among Asian Students: A Social Norm Approach
In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma toward people with depression than do Europeans. Possible methods of reducing this discrepancy have rarely been explored. Asian undergraduate students ( n = 132) were presented with one of four antistigma videos with two actresses: one portraying a student with depression and the other a professor. The videos used the concept of social proof, presenting either positive or negative d…
A psychometric evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory–II.
This article provides psychometric information on the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), with respect to internal consistency, factorial validity, and gender differences. Both measures demonstrated high internal reliability in the full student sample. Significant differences between the mean BDI and BDI-II scores necessitated the development of new cutoffs for analogue research …
Humor styles and personality-vulnerability to depression
Sociotropy and autonomy are personality dimensions that represent vulnerabilities for depression, although relatively little is known about the social-psychological mechanisms underlying this association. The present research tested associations between personality-vulnerability dimensions, depressive symptoms, and positive and negative styles of humor in undergraduates as one means of characterizing the social interaction patterns of sociotropic…
Risk factors in depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, affecting 14% of all people at some point in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, but beyond gender there are a variety of risk factors that influence the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing depression. Here it consolidates research findings on risk factors into one source, for ease of reference for both researchers and clinicians in practice. The…
Ruminative thought style and depressed mood
Recent research has suggested that the measure most commonly used to assess rumination, the Response Style Questionnaire (RSQ; L. D. Butler & S. Nolen‐Hoeksema, 1994), may be heavily biased by depressive symptoms, thereby restricting the scope of research exploring this construct. This article offers a broader conceptualization of rumination, which includes positive, negative, and neutral thoughts as well as past and future‐oriented thoughts. The…
Social emotions and emotional valence during imagery in women with PTSD: Affective and neural correlates
Disturbances of emotional awareness and expression in posttraumatic stress disorder: Meta-mood, emotion regulation, mindfulness, and interference of emotional expressiveness
Demonstrations of deficient emotional awareness (EA) in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) measured by alexithymia were extended to trait metamood, difficulties in emotion regulation, and trait mindfulness in 55 women with PTSD related to history of interpersonal/familial maltreatment. Perceived causes of interference of emotional expression were also identified that fully mediated the association between PTSD diagnostic status and alexithymic …
Self-referential processing in women with PTSD: Affective and neural response
Early maladaptive schemas, styles of humor and aggression
The relationship between early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and psychopathology is thought to be mediated by the use of maladaptive compensatory coping and deficits in adaptive coping. One form of coping that might be affected by EMSs is an individual's style of humor, which can be adaptive or maladaptive. This study examined the relationships among EMS domains, styles of humor, and aggression. The EMS domain of Impaired Limits was most consistentl…
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
Accounting for Differences in Depression Stigma Between Canadian Asians and Europeans
Stigma is an important barrier to recovery from depression. Individuals of Asian origin show greater levels of depression stigma compared with individuals of European origin. This study examined the mediators of the relationship between ethnicity and depression stigma in a North American context. A sample of university students, including 199 Canadian Europeans and 249 Canadian Asians, completed a variety of measures through an online study. Stig…
Reducing the Stigma of Depression Among Asian Students: A Social Norm Approach
In North America, Asians reliably report higher levels of stigma toward people with depression than do Europeans. Possible methods of reducing this discrepancy have rarely been explored. Asian undergraduate students ( n = 132) were presented with one of four antistigma videos with two actresses: one portraying a student with depression and the other a professor. The videos used the concept of social proof, presenting either positive or negative d…
Depressive cognition on Twitter
Treatment of psychosocial risk factors in depression.
The vicious cycle of psychopathology and stressful life events: A meta-analytic review testing the stress generation model
10) stress. We also identified unique patterns of effects across specific types of psychopathology. For example, effects were larger for depression than anxiety. Furthermore, effects were sometimes larger in studies with younger participants, shorter time lags between assessments, checklist measures of stress, and for interpersonal stressors. Finally, a multilevel meta-analytic structural equation model suggested that dependent stress exacerbates…
Does controlling for baseline stressful life events clarify or cloud the stress generation effect? A response to Dang and Xiao (2025)
Stress generation theory suggests that individuals with psychiatric disorders have characteristics or engage in behaviors that increase the amount of dependent (self-generated), but not independent (fateful), stress they are exposed to. Our recent comprehensive meta-analysis amalgamating over 30 years of stress generation research (Rnic et al., 2023) documented stress generation effects broadly across various forms of psychopathology. Since the p…
Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Partner Version of the Psychological Distance Scaling Task
The Psychological Distance Scaling Task (PDST), originally developed to assess self‐schema structures, has recently been adapted to assess partner‐schema structures (PSS, i.e., the degree of interconnectedness in one's beliefs about their romantic partner). However, the psychometric properties of the partner version of the PDST have yet to be assessed. Across four studies ( N = 1134), we tested whether PSS (1) were associated with relationship an…
A dyadic daily diary investigation of partner-schema structures on relational well-being and depressed mood
Partner-schemas structures (i.e., the degree of interconnectedness in the beliefs one holds about their romantic partner) have been associated with relationship well-being and, to a lesser degree, depression, in cross-sectional research. However, little is known about how schema structures may impact couples in their daily lives. To address this gap, 260 couples were sampled at baseline to assess partner-schema structures, then surveyed for 14 da…
Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (4 works)