The Cognitive Style Questionnaire: A measure of the

to such critiques, the fi eld saw a major shift in methodologies used to test these theo-ries, and prospective diathesis-stress designs became the gold standard. Recent compre-hensive reviews of the literature have demon-strated that although inconsistencies exist in the fi ndings of studies, the majority have pro-vided support for the hypothesis that a pessi-mistic attributional style confers vulnerability to the development of depressive symptoms following the occurrence of negative events in children (Abela & Hankin, 2008), adoles-cents (Abela & Hankin, in 2008), and adult