The temporal order of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral gains in daily life during treatment of depression.
Evelien SnippeTimon ElmerEva CeulemansArnout C SmitWolfgang LutzMarieke A HelmichPublished in: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (2024)
The first improvements in behaviors did not tend to precede the first improvements in emotions likely because fewer behavioral gains were found. The finding that cognitive variables tend to improve around the same time as sad mood may explain why many studies failed to find that cognitive change predicts later change in depressive symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).