Journal of Personality Assessment, 1983, 47, 2 The Cognitive Bias Questionnaire: Further Evidence

62 Hammen, 1979) as a measure of depressive cognitions. Forty depressed students completed the Cognitive Bias Questionnaire as well as general measures of depression and measures of depressed mood. In addition, independent raters counted frequency of negative and positive self-statements generated during a tape recorded self-description, and rated concurrent depressive tone. The results replicate previous findings of convergent and discriminant validity for the Cognitive Bias Questionnaire. Furthermore, depressed-distorted responses and nondepressed-nondistorted responses were significantly correlated with independently assessed depressive verbal behaviors. A major obstacle in the development distorted scores decreased with corres-of cognitive-behavioral treatment strat- ponding decrements in depresson llevel egies and the testing of cognitive-behavi- following treatment. Depressed-distor-oral theories has been the lack of relevant ted scores did not correlate with anger or assessment instruments (Kendall & Kor- anxiety when depression level was par-geski, 1979). Recently Krantz and Ham- tialled out. In a further study, Blaney, men (1979) developed one such measure Behar, & Head (1980) found depressed-of depressive cognitions. This measure, distorted scores to correlate more highl