Depression and Defensiveness in Self-Descriptive Moods of Alcoholics
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 26 (1) , 23-26
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1970.26.1.23
Abstract
MMPI Depression scales ( D and D30), Social Desirability scales from Edwards (SD) and from Marlowe-Crowne (MC-SD) were administered to 61 alcoholic patients together with a set of mood scales. An elevation for D and MC-SD was found. Somatic depression ( D) did not correlate significantly with depression of the phenomenological transparent mood scales, but with mood scales indicating inertia. SD correlates considerably with all mood factors, but MC-SD only with some of them. Alcoholics were characterized as being depressive and defensive in terms of giving a high approval-seeking self-image but not deviant by following socially desirable self-descriptions.Keywords
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