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).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc330839 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Logsdon, Steven Alan |
| Contributors | Doster, Joseph A., 1943-, Haynes, Jack Read, Schneider, Lawrence J., Stricklin, Annie B. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | viii, 105 leaves : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Logsdon, Steven Alan, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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