STIMULATING THERAPEUTIC CHANGE WITH INTERPRETATIONS - A COMPARISON OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONNOTATION
STIMULATING THERAPEUTIC CHANGE WITH INTERPRETATIONS - A COMPARISON OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONNOTATION
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DOI:
10.1037/0022-0167.29.6.551
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
STRONG, SR
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作者:
BECK, JT;STRONG, SR
Based on impression management theory, it was hypothesized that clients would change whether counselors interpreted their symptoms as connoting negative and undesirable personal characteristics or positive and desirable personal characteristics. An alternative hypothesis, from communications theory, was that negative connotative interpretations would stimulate the maintenance of symptoms, whereas positive connotative interpretations would stimulate symptom remission. The hypotheses were tested in a short-term counseling experiment with 30 18–21 yr old depressed (determined by the Beck Depression Inventory) undergraduates. Ss received 6 interpretations over 2 interviews that either negatively or positively connoted their depressive symptoms. Results support both hypotheses: Although Ss in both treatment conditions decreased their depression significantly during treatment, Ss receiving negative connotative interpretations experienced symptom relapse following treatment, whereas Ss receiving positive connotative interpretations continued in symptom remission. An attributional explanation of the results is explored.(35 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)