The present study was an attempt to replicate and extend Loewenstein and Hokanson's (in press) work on social information processing of depressed individuals. Specifically, it was designed to examine whether depressed subjects would demonstrate decreased recall for positive and negative social information about themselves relative to nondepressed controls. Of particular interest was whether depressives' recall of positive and negative self-information would be differently affected by presenting this conflicting information together as opposed to separately (positive self-information presented with neutral self-information, or negative self-information presented with neutral self-information). / The results of the present investigation yielded results that were inconsistent with predictions generated by Coyne's (1976) and Loewenstein and Hokanson's (in press) formulations. There were no differences between depressed, nondepressed high-anxious and nondepressed low-anxious subjects in recall of positive or negative social information about the self whether this information was presented separately or together. The results of other analyses were also at odds with past research/theory. / The discrepancy between results obtained in the present study and in Loewenstein and Hokanson's two previous investigations were examined by making quantitative comparisons across the three studies using post-hoc analyses. It is argued that paradigmatic differences may have accounted for the failure to replicate Loewenstein and Hokanson's previous work. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: B, page: 4305. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75949 |
| Contributors | LOEWENSTEIN, DAVID A., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 83 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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