Rejection Effects Following Repeated Exposure to a Depressed Stranger as a Function of Changing Severity of Depression and Expectation of Future Encounters.

Autor/inn/en	Fretwell, Dorrie S.; und weitere
Titel	Rejection Effects Following Repeated Exposure to a Depressed Stranger as a Function of Changing Severity of Depression and Expectation of Future Encounters.
Quelle	(1987)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Graue Literatur; Alienation; College Students; Depression (Psychology); Females; Higher Education; Interpersonal Attraction; Interpersonal Relationship; Personality Traits; Psychological Patterns; Rejection (Psychology); Social Isolation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Entfremdung; Collegestudent; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interpersonale Anziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ablehnung; Soziale Isolation
Abstract	Recently, research has examined interpersonal factors that influence the maintenance of depression. Data suggest that depressives tend to alienate others in their social environment. This study examined rejection effects following repeated exposure to a stranger whose depressive symptomatology increased, decreased, or remained unchanged. Female undergraduate subjects (N=64) watched a series of three videotaped interactions between two female confederates. One of the conferederates, the target subject, enacted different levels of depression. The enactments, which defined four experimental conditions, were of consistent depression, increasing depression, decreasing depression, and consistent nondepression (normalcy). One-half of the subjects assigned to each condition expected to be paired with the target subject in four future sessions, the other one-half expected to be paired with co-participants in the study. The results revealed that rejection responses as reflected in reluctance to engage in future encounters with, and negative perceptions of, the target subject were generally strongest toward the unchanging and deteriorating depressive, less pronounced toward the improving depressive, and least apparent toward the normal persons. Expectation of involvement with the target subject, versus nonexpectation, was for the most part associated with a trend toward less rejection in all four experimental conditions of depression. (Author/NB)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01