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Performance satisfaction of depressives under high and low success conditions
Author(s) -
Sacco William P.,
Hokanson Jack E.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197810)34:4<907::aid-jclp2270340416>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - learned helplessness , psychology , perception , cognition , depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , anxiety , psychiatry , neuroscience , economics , macroeconomics
Evaluated two competing predictions about the effects of high and low success experiences on depressives' satisfaction with performance. No support was found for the prediction derived from Beck's cognitive theory, which posits distorted, negative cognitions about the self as the central dynamic of depression. However, results did tend to support the learned helplessness model's contention that depression is characterized by the perception that reinforcements occur independent of the individual's responses.