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The Stability of Mood and Social Perception Measures in a Sample of Depressive In-Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Martin E. Lunghi
Martin E. Lunghi*
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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Summary

Forty depressives and 40 matched controls were compared in terms of a number of self-report variables and in terms of their descriptions and evaluations of both real-life and hypothetical social relationships. Clear differences between the two groups reveal poorer self-ratings in the depressive sample, together with a tendency to describe and to evaluate both real and imaginary relationships more negatively. A retest of the depressed patients at the time of discharge from hospital showed improvement only in the two depression measures and not in any of the other self-rating and perceptual measures used. The possibility is discussed that the perceptual variables are predisposing to depression rather than concomitant with it.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 6 , June 1977 , pp. 598 - 604
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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