Effects of Depression and Target Status on Aggressive Responding

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Abstract
The aggressive responding (on a Buss “aggression” machine) of psychiatrically hospitalized depressives was compared with controls under two conditions. The conditions varied in that the aggression target was defined as high status (physician) in one and low status (orderly) in the other. There was no threat of retaliation in either condition. While there was no significant over-all main effect of depression, the aggressive response of the depressives was significantly inhibited by the high-status condition, while the aggression scores of the controls were virtually unaffected. This resulted in a significant over-all effect of status and a significant two-way interaction between depression and target's status. The results were discussed and interpreted in a predominantly analytic framework.

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