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Interrelationships between factors that emerged from three self-control instruments in a sample of depressed women were examined. Empirical dimensions corresponded fairly well to dimensions described by self-control theoreticians. For example, groups of items reflecting various facets of planning and systematic problem solving clustered together regardless of the particular instrument from which they were drawn, as did item groups that reflected attention to positive information. These results also suggest several elaborations of self-control models as applied to depressed women. For example, positive thoughts and behaviors and negative thoughts and behaviors did not seem to be perceived by subjects as functionally opposite. And there was evidence of greater differentiation and complexity in subjects' perceptions of negative as compared with positive dimensions.
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Rude, S.S. Dimensions of self-control in a sample of depressed women. Cogn Ther Res 13, 363–375 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01173479
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