The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of the relationship between the Early Recollections content of clinically depressed and nondepressed adolescents. / Two hundred and sixty high school students participated in the initial stage of the study. Students were asked to write their three Earliest Recollections (ERs) on the Self-Written Early Recollections form developed by Evans (1981). After the Early Recollections were completed, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was administered. The criteria for inclusion into the two research groups was: (1) Nondepressed--the BDI score was 9 or less; or (2) Clinically Depressed--the BDI score was 15 or above. The 30 subjects with the highest scores on the BDI (15 or above) and the subjects with the 30 lowest BDI scores (9 or less) were included in the study. / Three judges rated the subjects' ER's for the presence or absence of masochistic themes using Beck's (1961) Masochistic Scoring Inventory. Results on the dependent measure (Masochistic Early Recollections) were analyzed with a t-test. Subsequent to the demonstration of differences between these two groups, a comparison was made between the themes of the Masochistic Early Recollections detected in the two groups. A two dimensional chi-square was used to evaluate the relationship between the frequency of occurrence of the 12 masochistic themes and the group membership. / In summary, the Early Recollections of the depressed group versus the nondepressed group significantly differed (P < .05), with the high depressed group showing smallest cases of more occurrence of masochistic themes in their Early Recollections. The greatest difference between the two groups was reported in the area of "loss" in childhood. The implications of these results, along with suggestions for further research, were discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-12, Section: A, page: 4342. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75995 |
| Contributors | WRIGHT, STEPHEN LANCE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 103 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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