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Relationship of mild depression to psychological deficit in college students
Author(s) -
Berndt David J.,
Berndt Sheila M.
Publication year - 1980
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(198010)36:4<868::aid-jclp2270360406>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - psychology , discriminant function analysis , depression (economics) , psychomotor learning , psychomotor retardation , clinical psychology , psychological testing , developmental psychology , audiology , cognition , psychiatry , statistics , medicine , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Twenty‐five mildly depressed and 25 nondepressed college students, identified on the basis of their scores on two self‐report depression measures, were distinguished by a discriminant analysis of their scores on six measures of psychological deficit. The significant function correctly identified 88% of the nondepressed group and 92% of the mildly depressed group with four variables: Paired easy associates, a digit symbol test, a writing speed task, and Neckar Cube reversals. A measure of short term memory and paired hard associates did not load on the discriminant function. Results were interpreted as suggestive evidence that mild depression is associated with a deficit in energy during both initial perceptual processing, and organization and execution of psychomotor tasks.