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The roles of domain specific hope and depressive personality in predicting depressive symptoms
Author(s) -
Shorey Hal S.,
Roberts Christopher R. D.,
Huprich Steven K.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
personality and mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.193
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1932-863X
pISSN - 1932-8621
DOI - 10.1002/pmh.1189
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , depressive symptoms , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , reciprocal , longitudinal study , domain (mathematical analysis) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , cognition , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pathology
The present study extended the research on hope (Snyder, 2002) and depression by assessing the impact of domain specific hope on depressive symptoms using a completely cross‐lagged longitudinal design across 2‐week and 5‐week time intervals while controlling for depressive personality. Results from an undergraduate sample ( n = 363) indicated that across a 2‐week time interval, hope in the social/peer and academic domains, depressive personality and depressive symptoms had reciprocal causal influences on each other, whereas across a 5‐week time interval, only hope in the family domain had a significant one‐way influence on depressive symptoms. The implications for working with young adults are discussed and suggestions made for future research relating to the personality‐based prediction of depressive symptoms. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.