TY - JOUR PY - 2000// TI - Differential roles of depressive and anxious symptoms and gender in defensiveness JO - Journal of personality assessment A1 - Joiner, T. E. A1 - Schmidt, N. B. A1 - Lerew, D. R. A1 - Cook, J. H. A1 - Gencoz, T. A1 - Gencoz, F. SP - 200 EP - 211 VL - 75 IS - 2 N2 - Among a sample of Air Force cadets facing the prospect of basic training (N= 1,190; 1,005 men and 185 women), the influence of a defensive test-taking style on measures of depressive and anxious symptoms was examined. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory (Beck & Steer, 1987) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck, Epstein, Brown, & Steer, 1988), as well as the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) L scale.

RESULTS supported hypotheses that defensiveness would affect a self-report measure of depression but not a self-report measure of anxiety and would do so more among men than women. Applied implications of the results are discussed.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0022-3891 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/S15327752JPA7502_2 ID - ref1 ER -