Depression and social comparison motives
作者:
Gifford Weary,
Kerry L. Marsh,
Linda McCormick,
期刊:
European Journal of Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 1
页码: 117-129
ISSN:0046-2772
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2420240109
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis study examined the role of informational social comparison motives in depressed and nondepressed individuals' opinion comparison activities. In particular. We examined the impact of agreement and disagreement from sources similar or dissimilar to depressed and nondepressed subjects on an attribute related to the focal judgment. AS predicted, depressed compared to nondepressed subjects indicated a greater preference for the similar‐disagreer, whereas nondepressed preferred as a partner the dissimilar‐agreer to a greater extent than did depressed subjects. Furthermore, measures of validation and construction motives were found to be associated with diflerent partner preferences. Results are discussed in terms of the multiple motivations underlying and distinguishing depressed and nondepressed social comparison activit
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