| Title | Development of Experimental Mood Induction Procedures for Testing Personality-Event Interaction Models of Depression |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1988 |
| Authors | Robins CJ |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Psychology |
| Volume | 44 |
| Pagination | 958-963 |
| Keywords | Behavioral biology - Human behavior 12504, Genetics - Sex differences 07004, Hominidae [86215] Human Medicine, Medical Sciences Behavior Neurology Psychiatry Primates Mammalia Vertebrata Chordata Animalia 03510, Medical Sciences Human Medicine, Nervous system - Pathology 21002, Pathology - Diagnostic 20506, Psychiatry - Psychopathology, Psychiatry - Psychophysiology, psychodynamics and therapy 21003 |
| Abstract | Cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic theorists have suggested recently that depressions may be differentiated on the basis of two sets of personality characteristics that each create emotional vulnerability to a different specific class of events. The present paper reports the development of two mood induction procedures that may be useful in testing this specific interactional approach. In these inductions, subjects listen to an audiotape that depicts either a series of social rejections or achievement failures and are instructed to imagine themselves as the main character. Both tapes were found to produce a strong increase in reported depressed affect in a sample of normal undergraduates (N = 119). These effects were large in comparison to those elicited by other mood induction procedure. Women reported greater mood shifts than men in response to both tapes. The present procedures have the advantage of content specificity that permits tests of personality-event interaction hypotheses.
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