Undergraduate female subjects interacted in a dyadic setting with male and female confederates displaying combinations of behaviors hypothesized to mediate others' responses to depressed individuals. Confederates revealed personal problems while enacting either depressed, anxious or normal roles. Self-blaming, non-blaming, and other-blaming statements regarding the confederates' problems were added to the portrayals of psychologically disturbed and normal behavior. Advice was requested by the confederates in one-half of the conditions. Results indicated that depressed confederates had more aversive interpersonal impact and were rejected more on measures of subject preference for further interaction but received more advice and support than the equally disturbed anxious confederates. There was no evidence of a negative mood induction in subjects. The sex of the confederate or the addition of blaming and advice-seeking behavior did not appear to have important interpersonal consequences. These findings are discussed in terms of current interpersonal theories of depression. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-11, Section: B, page: 4030. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75689 |
| Contributors | STEPHENS, ROBERT S., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 124 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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