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Interpersonal Versus Impersonal Problem Solving Skills in a Public and Private Context: An Examination of the Parameters of the Learned Helplessness Model with Clinically Depressed Males

Forty volunteer patients from a Veteran's Administration Hospital served as subjects for this study. On the basis of Beck Depression Inventory scores, the subjects were divided into depressed (11 and above) and nondepressed (7 and below) groups. Subjects were assigned randomly to either public condition (experimenter present with the subject during experimental procedures) or a private condition (subject performed the procedures alone). Subjects in each condition were asked to perform three tasks which varied in the amount of interpersonal involvement each required ranging from low through medium to high. The low interpersonal involvement task consisted of an anagram-solving procedure. Both the medium and high interpersonal involvement tasks employed modification of the Means-Ends Problem-Solving Procedure (MEPDS) (a measure of interpersonal problem solving ability).

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330839
Date08 1900
CreatorsLogsdon, Steven Alan
ContributorsDoster, Joseph A., 1943-, Haynes, Jack Read, Schneider, Lawrence J., Stricklin, Annie B.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatviii, 105 leaves : ill., Text
RightsPublic, Logsdon, Steven Alan, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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