As a result of this study, other researchers began formulating theories of their own. McIntosh and Fisher were two theorist who challenged Beck’s Negative Cognitive Triad. Their theory provided the presumption that there could be more or less than three specific negative thoughts. Their tests, as well as their statistics, determined that there was only one governing negative thought: The Self-Relevant Negative Attitude. They further explain their data when they state, "…it would appear that retaining all three areas of the triad as separate dimensions is not necessary for representing the latent structure of depressive cognition within Beck's framework" (McIntosh & Fischer, 2000, p.156).
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