Depression and self-focused language in structured interviews with older men |
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Authors: | Jarrold William Javitz Harold S Krasnow Ruth Peintner Bart Yeh Eric Swan Gary E Mehl Matthias |
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Affiliation: | University of California at Davis, USA. wjarrold@ucdavis.edu |
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Abstract: | The association between depression and self-focused language has been found to varying extents across studies. The presence or absence of the association may depend on the communicative context. Based on Beck's depression model, a broad, evaluative self-focused question was predicted more likely to elicit a stronger association than a full interview containing a more heterogeneous question set of items. The spontaneous speech obtained during structured interviews of 26 depressed and nondepressed older men, an as-yet little studied population, was analyzed. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that association between self-focused language and depression was demonstrated in the target question but not across the entire interview. The results may explain some of the aforementioned discrepancies in prior studies. |
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