Gerald I. Metalsky

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

1. Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.

   1989 · 3,714 citations

2. The attributional Style Questionnaire

   1982 · 1,806 citations

3. When depression breeds contempt: Reassurance seeking, self-esteem, and rejection of depressed college students by their roommates.

   1992 · 403 citations

4. The Hopelessness Depression Symptom Questionnaire

   1997 · 401 citations

5. Depressive reactions to failure in a naturalistic setting: A test of the hopelessness and self-esteem theories of depression.

   1993 · 363 citations

6. Vulnerability to depressive mood reactions: Toward a more powerful test of the diathesis-stress and causal mediation components of the reformulated theory of depression.

   1987 · 343 citations

7. A prospective test of an integrative interpersonal theory of depression: A naturalistic study of college roommates.

   1995 · 322 citations

8. Vulnerability to depressive symptomatology: A prospective test of the diathesis-stress and causal mediation components of the hopelessness theory of depression.

   1992 · 299 citations

9. Depression and Excessive Reassurance-Seeking

   1999 · 285 citations

10. Excessive Reassurance Seeking: Delineating a Risk Factor Involved in the Development of Depressive Symptoms

    2001 · 271 citations

11. Attributional styles and life events in the classroom: Vulnerability and invulnerability to depressive mood reactions.

    1982 · 270 citations

12. The hopelessness theory of depression: Attributional aspects

    1988 · 245 citations

13. Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: Development and validation of the cognitive style questionnaire

    2007 · 173 citations

14. Caught in the Crossfire: Depression, Self-Consistency, Self-Enhancement, and the Response of Others

    1993 · 141 citations

15. The cognitive diathesis-stress theories of depression: Toward an adequate evaluation of the theories' validities.

    1988 · 117 citations

16. A test of the tripartite model's prediction of anhedonia's specificity to depression: patients with major depression versus patients with schizophrenia

    2003 · 115 citations

17. The Children's Attributional Style Interview: Developmental Tests of Cognitive Diathesis-Stress Theories of Depression

    2001 · 108 citations

18. Attributional Styles: Toward a Framework for Conceptualization and Assessment

    1981 · 83 citations

19. Negative cognitive styles, dysfunctional attitudes, and the remitted depression paradigm: A search for the elusive cognitive vulnerability to depression factor among remitted depressives.

    2005 · 76 citations

20. Learned helplessness as experimenter-induced failure and its alleviation with attentional redeployment.

    1980 · 72 citations

21. Hopelessness depression as a distinct dimension of depressive symptoms among clinical and non-clinical samples

    2001 · 72 citations

22. Hopelessness as a mediator of the association between social support and depressive symptoms: Findings of a study of men with HIV.

    2001 · 67 citations

23. Testing the Causal Mediation Component of Beck's Theory of Depression: Evidence for Specific Mediation

    1999 · 61 citations

24. Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression and Lifetime History of Axis I Psychopathology: A Comparison of Negative Cognitive Styles (CSQ) and Dysfunctional Attitudes (DAS)

    2003 · 59 citations

25. The hopelessness theory of depression: Does the research test the theory?

    1988 · 58 citations

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