Differential roles of depressive and anxious symptoms and gender in defensiveness |
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Authors: | Joiner T E Schmidt N B Lerew D R Cook J H Gencoz T Gencoz F |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306-1270, USA. joiner@psy.fsu.edu |
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Abstract: | Among a sample of Air Force cadets facing the prospect of basic training (N= 1,190; 1,005 men and 185 women), the influence of a defensive test-taking style on measures of depressive and anxious symptoms was examined. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck & Steer, 1987) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988), as well as the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) L scale. Results supported hypotheses that defensiveness would affect a self-report measure of depression but not a self-report measure of anxiety and would do so more among men than women. Applied implications of the results are discussed. |
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