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 -