Citation

Koenig LJ, Clements CM, Alloy LB. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 1992; 24(2): 233-252.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/h0078706

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Examined 2 motivational explanations (the esteem maintenance and impression management hypotheses) for depressive realism and nondepressive illusions of control. After completing measures assessing self-esteem (SE) and attitudes about the relationship between SE and control, 66 depressed (DP) and 77 nondepressed (NDP) Ss performed a judgment of noncontingency task in either a public or private setting.

FINDINGS suggest that both of the motivational hypotheses were related to control judgments. However, there was no evidence that these motives are the ones that underlie the typical failure of depressed individuals to succumb to the illusion of control. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

suicide risk

Keywords

Impression Management; Internal External Locus of Control; Judgment; Major Depression; Reality; Self-Esteem