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The effects of expectancy, professional identity, and behavior upon social rejection
Author(s) -
Sattin Dana B.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00885669
Subject(s) - mental illness , expectancy theory , mental health , psychology , citation , identity (music) , social psychology , sociology , psychiatry , law , political science , philosophy , aesthetics
Psychiatric residents (n = 16) and undergraduate students (n = 32) listened to four recorded interviews. Each interview was designed to represent a particular combination of impulse control and distress. Two levels of mental illness expectancy were obtained by changing the context of the interviews. The subjects rated the interviewees on scales of social acceptance and psychopathology. Univariate analyses of variance were used to evaluate the data. The evidence indicated that an individual's behavior must be actually perceived as psychopathological before social rejection will occur.

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