• Beth LaGrange, David A Cole, Danielle H Dallaire, Jeffrey A Ciesla, Ashley Q Pineda, Alanna E Truss, and Amy Folmer.
• Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
• Psychol Assess. 2008 Sep 1; 20 (3): 217-26.

AbstractAs part of a longitudinal study, the Cognitive Triad Inventory for Children (CTI-C; N. J. Kaslow, K. D. Stark, B. Printz, R. Livingston, & S. L. Tsai, 1992) as well as other measures of cognitive style and depressive symptoms were administered annually to 3 cohorts of children starting in Grades 2, 4, and 6. Developmentally based analyses revealed 4 things: (a) The factor structure of the CTI-C changed over the course of middle childhood and then stabilized in early adolescence; (b) the CTI-C correlated significantly with measures of depression, self-perceived competence, self-worth, perceived controllability, and perceived contingency, but not with measures of attributional style; (c) 1-year stability correlations increased substantially from Grade 2 to Grade 8; and (d) the CTI-C did not generally predict self-reported depressive symptoms 1 year later. Implications emerge regarding developmental changes in the structure of children's depressive cognitions.(c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved.

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