Self-Control Processes in Depressed and Nondepressed Psychiatric Patients: Self-Evaluation.

摘要: ABSTRACT A cognitive/behavioral model of depression emphasizing the self-control processes self-mcnitoring, self-evaluation, and self-reinforcement views as a set by which an individual maintains responses in relative absence immediate external reinforcement. The relationship between attributional style, clinical was examined for 19 depressed 12 nondepressed psychiatric inpatients 16 nonpsychiatric controls. Subjects were administered verbal recognition task to assess their self-evaluation patterns. results offered only partial support depression. patients demonstrated lover expectations performance prior undertaking task, lower estimations following levels satisfaction with than Their on these measures, however, indistinguishable from that patients, thereby raising questions regarding specificity deficits Results suggest validity conceptualizing may be quantitatively different mild due implications experimentally manipulating success failure experiences. (Author)