LE3 .A278 2001

2001

Horvath, Peter

Acadia University

Master of Science

Masters

Psychology

Psychology

The purpose of this study was to analyze psychosocial transactional patterns and to provide evidence of the additive model of depression. 274 undergraduates completed measures of sociotropy, autonomy, motivation, interpersonal distancing, coping, life stress, and depressive symptoms. Principal components analyses with Varimax rotations were used to determine psychosocial factors. Construct congruent negative life stress and the obtained factors were employed in regression analyses predicting depressive symptoms in order to test for moderating, mediating, and additive effects. Three factors, labeled Need-For-Approval, Independence-Seeking, and Actualization, were obtained. Although analyses provided inconclusive evidence of moderating, mediating, and additive effects, it was concluded support for the additive model of depression was strongest. The findings suggest that intrapersonal and contextual factors can combine to raise the depressogenic psychosocial transactional pattern to a level of clinical severity.

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