Locus of Control and Self-Reported Depression among College Students

Abramowitz, Stephen I.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1969.25.1.149

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“…Recently, Naditch, Gargan, and Michael (1975) found that depressive patients had a more external locus of control than their control subjects. This replicates Abramowitz (1969) and suggests that there is a reliable relationship between mood and locus of control, at least when comparing extreme sadness to normal mood states.…”

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Mood and personality: A search for the causal relationship1

1980

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Previous findings of correlations between mood and personality variables were noted. It was suggested that the establishment of a causal relationship was crucially important, not merely to the understanding of how mood is related to personality but to the conceptualization of mood as a source of error in personality measurement as well. A prior attempt to establish a causal role for mood failed, but may have done so for methodological reasons. The present study investigated the influence of a mood manipulation on personality measures. There was also an opportunity to replicate prior correlational findings independent ofthe effect ofthe mood manipulation. College students were asked to think of happy, sad, or affectively neutral events and then filled out several personality measures. A manipulation check confirmed that different moods were induced by this procedure. The prior correlations between mood and personality variables were replicated, but the mood manipulation did not affect any ofthe personality measures. The implications of these results for personality measurement and for the relation between mood and behavior were discussed.

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Mood and personality: A search for the causal relationship1

1980

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“…However, the argument seems implausible for a number of reasons. First, it is known generally that depressed individuals exhibit motivational deficits that interfere with any kind of treatment (Beck, 1967). I n order to maintain S motivation and compliance over the 30-day duration, it was necessary for the therapist to provide all Ss with maximal levels of empathy, warmth, and genuine interest.…”

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Behavioral treatment for depression: An evaluation of therapeutic components

1979

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Designed study to determine the "active ingredients" in Lewinsohn's behavioral treatment for depression. Fifty-six men and women were screened for significant depression and were assigned to four experimental treatment groups: (1) an activities-increase group instructed to increment participation in reinforcing activities; (2) an expectancy-control group that participated in a fitness program; (3) a self-monitoring control that simply recorded activities and mood daily; and (4) an attention-control group. Consistent with an operant model of depression, the resulted indicated that increases in activities that Ss had rated as pleasureable alleviated depressed mood over a 30--day time period. While all Ss evidenced some improvement in mood, the activities-increase group showed significantly greater improvement than Ss in groups that did not increase their activity levels. Correlational analyses of daily activity and Depression Adjective Check List Scores proved additional support for the behavioral model of depression. The outcome for the four experimental groups was not different on a measure of belief in internal vs. external control of reinforcement.

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“…The higher the scale score, the more the individual is characterized by an external locus of control. External locus of control has been associated with depression (Abramowitz, 1969), schizophrenia (Harrow & Ferrante, 1969), neuroticism (Nowicki, 1972), and debilitating anxiety (Kendall, Finch, 8c Mahoney, 1976).…”

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