An Empirical Investigation of the Modeling of Depression

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Abrams ◽  
Glen D. King
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Neutral Affect ◽  
Affect Adjective ◽  
State Form ◽  
Psychological Inventory

To investigate the effects of viewing various films on affect, 200 volunteer subjects were assigned to 10 groups following a modified Solomon four-group design. Five groups received pretesting and five groups received no pretesting before being exposed to one of five treatments and follow-up testing 2 or 3 wk. later with the State Form of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List and the Depression Check List. The treatments required viewing films of an actor who conveyed depression, positive affect, and neutral affect, and a no-film control. Subjects viewing a film were administered 13 semantic differential adjective pairs to obtain the observers' perception of the character in the film and the California Psychological Inventory. Depression increased following the depressed and neutral film conditions, and decreased from posttest to follow-up test, while the positive and no-film control conditions produced no change from pretest to posttest levels of depression. Similar results were found for the measure of anxiety but not for hostility. Subjects tended to be affected in the same way by the treatments regardless of their pretreatment levels of depression, anxiety, or hostility. Relationships between the changes in depression from pre-to posttest and personality variables were not confirmed.

Multiple Affect Adjective Check List--Revised

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Benard Lubin ◽  
Christine M. Rinck
Keyword(s):  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

Anxiety Levels of Six Helicopter Ambulance Medics in a Combat Zone

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Bourne ◽  
William M. Coli ◽  
William E. Datel
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Combat Casualties ◽  
Affect Adjective

Anxiety scale scores from the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List were significantly related to the daily activities of 6 Army medics performing helicopter ambulance evacuations of combat casualties.

Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility in Rural Women

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 673-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Hertsgaard ◽  
Harriett Light
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Affect Adjective

760 randomly selected women residing on farms in a mid-western srate were administered the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List to explore factors affecting their depression, anxiety, and hostility scores. Anxiety scores were significantly correlated with hostility scores and with depression scores, as were hostility scores with depression scores. Factors that appeared to affect depression scores were presence and age of children in the home, church attendance, religious affiliation, involvement in decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level. Anxiety scores appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, church attendance, religious affiliation, decision making and husbands' education. Hostility appeared to be affected by presence and age of children, subjects' age, decision making, contact with friends, and husbands' educational level.

Response Set in a Check List Test: A Sometimes Thing

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman
Keyword(s):  
Total Sample ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Affect Adjective

This study was done to assess the influence of a response set, number of items checked, in the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL). In some previous studies, the response set was moderately correlated with the total scale scores of Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility, but in other studies the correlations were minimal. Ss were 432 male and 614 female undergraduates from colleges in the East, Midwest, and West. In the total sample, the number of items checked correlated low, but significantly, with the total scale scores. However, the magnitude of the correlations varied considerably among the three regional samples.

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