Self-verification model of major depression in marriage

摘要：本研究从横截面和纵向两个角度对抑郁症的自我验证理论进行了研究。该理论认为，抑郁的人积极寻求，更喜欢，从别人那里得到的反馈，证实了他们消极的自我观点。它进一步假设，这种负面的反馈寻求影响发展的人际拒绝，反过来，有助于维持抑郁发作。然而，最近对这一模型的测试大多局限于使用非临床样本的研究，这些研究测量了在短期内似是而非的关系（如室友和同伴互动）中的人际排斥，并且未能提供对负反馈寻求对障碍过程的影响的纵向检查。建议的调查的目的是建立在这一机构的研究，通过测试的自我验证模型内的样本已婚妇女谁符合DSM-IV标准的严重抑郁症。抑郁的女性，非抑郁的女性，以及她们的伴侣（n = 112对夫妇）将被招募来直接检查（1）重性抑郁症、负反馈寻求和伴侣拒绝之间的主效应关联，（2）负反馈寻求对重性抑郁症和伴侣拒绝之间关联的可能中介作用，（3）负反馈寻求和伴侣拒绝对抑郁发作持续时间的联合作用。研究结果将有助于澄清自我验证和重性抑郁症之间的横向和纵向关联的性质。

Abstract: This application proposes an investigation of the self-verification theory of major depression from both a cross-sectional and longitudinal perspective. This theory posits that depressed persons actively seek, and prefer, feedback from others that confirms their negative self views. It is further hypothesized that this negative feedback-seeking influences the development of interpersonal rejection that, in turn, serves to maintain the depressive episode. Recent attempts to test this model, however, have been mostly limited to studies that utilize non-clinical samples, that measure interpersonal rejection within specious relationships such a roommate and peer interactions over short periods of time, and that fail to provide longitudinal examinations of the effects of negative feedback- seeking on the course of disorder. The purpose of the proposed investigation is to build upon this body of research by testing the self- verification model within a sample of married women who meet DSM- IV criteria for major depression. Depressed women, non-depressed women, and their partners (n=112 couples) will be recruited to directly examine (1) the main effect associations between major depression, negative feedback-seeking, and partner rejection, (2) the possible mediating effects of negative feedback-seeking on the association between major depression and partner rejection, and (3) the combined effects of negative feedback-seeking and partner rejection on length of the depressive episode. Findings will help clarify the nature of the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between self-verification and major depression.