The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide

Taylor, Peter J., Gooding, Patricia A., Wood, Alexander Mathew ORCID: 0000-0002-8010-1455 and Tarrier, Nicholas (2011) The role of defeat and entrapment in depression, anxiety, and suicide. Psychological Bulletin, 137 (3). 391 - 420. ISSN 0033-2909

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Abstract

Defeat and entrapment are psychological constructs that have played a central role in evolutionary accounts of depression. These concepts have since been implicated in theoretical accounts of anxiety disorders and suicidality. The current article reports on a systematic review of the existing research investigating the links among defeat, entrapment, and psychopathology in the domains of depression, suicidality, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other anxiety syndromes. Fifty-one original research articles were identified and critically reviewed. There was strong convergent evidence for a link with depressive symptoms, across a variety of clinical and nonclinical samples. Preliminary support for an association with suicidality was also observed, with effects not readily explainable in terms of comorbid depression. There was strong evidence for an association between defeat and PTSD, although this may have been partly accounted for by comorbid depression. The findings for other anxiety disorders were less consistent. There was, however, evidence that social anxiety in individuals with psychosis may be related to perceptions of entrapment. Overall, there was evidence that perceptions of defeat and entrapment were closely associated with various forms of human psychopathology. These effects were often in the moderate to large range and superseded the impact of other environmental and psychological stressors on psychopathology. We provide a unified theoretical model of how defeat and entrapment may contribute to these different psychopathological conditions. Clinical implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/bul
Additional Information:	© 2011 American Psychological Association
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2019 08:57
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2024 00:11
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101534

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