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The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide

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ID4422229
AuthorsPeter Taylor (0000-0001-7456-3744, University of Manchester), Peter James Taylor, Patricia Gooding (0000-0002-7458-4462, University of Manchester), Alex M Wood (0000-0002-8010-1455, University of Manchester), Nicholas Tarrier (University of Manchester)
Year2011
Volume137
Issue3
Pages391-420
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2909 • E-ISSN: 1939-1455
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0022935
PMID21443319
OpenAlexW1963697655
LanguageEN
Citations received63
References cited39

Defeat and entrapment are psychological constructs that have played a central role in evolutionary accounts of depression. These concepts have since been implicated in theoretical accounts of anxiety disorders and suicidality. The current article reports on a systematic review of the existing research investigating the links among defeat, entrapment, and psychopathology in the domains of depression, suicidality, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other anxiety syndromes. Fifty-one original research articles were identified and critically reviewed. There was strong convergent evidence for a link with depressive symptoms, across a variety of clinical and nonclinical samples. Preliminary support for an association with suicidality was also observed, with effects not readily explainable in terms of comorbid depression. There was strong evidence for an association between defeat and PTSD, although this may have been partly accounted for by comorbid depression. The findings for other anxiety disorders were less consistent. There was, however, evidence that social anxiety in individuals with psychosis may be related to perceptions of entrapment. Overall, there was evidence that perceptions of defeat and entrapment were closely associated with various forms of human psychopathology. These effects were often in the moderate to large range and superseded the impact of other environmental and psychological stressors on psychopathology. We provide a unified theoretical model of how defeat and entrapment may contribute to these different psychopathological conditions. Clinical implications and avenues for future research are discussed

Anxiety · Association (psychology) · Depression (economics) · Entrapment · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Social defeat · Stressor · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

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