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Transient mood changes and depressive realism
Author(s)
Date Issued
1996
Conference
ISSN
1464-066X
0020-7594
Citation
Tang, S. K. (17 Aug 1996). Transient mood changes and depressive realism. 26th International Congress of Psychology.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This study explores the recent concept of depressive realism-nondepressive illusion of control which challenges the cognitive theories of depression and the traditional model of mental health. Nondepressed and mildly depressed college students were randomly assigned to either happy, sad, or neutral mood induction, and were each given the computerized judgment of control tasks with zero, low, and high control. Results were mixed. The depressive realism effect was not as distinct as it was hypothesized, and mood X control 2-way interaction effects were found.
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