Perceived efficacy and interpersonal impact of impression management among psychiatric patients.

Abstract

One hundred hospitalized male psychiatric patients listened to one of four audio tapes on which an interviewed patient revealed his intentions to engage either in healthy or sick self-presentation. The taped patient also reported his psychiatrist to be either in favor of or opposed to early discharge. Subjects predicted longer lengths of hospitalization for the taped patient, and found him to be less interpersonally attractive, when he intended to fake psychopathology. Predicted length of hospitalization was also longer when the taped patient's psychiatrist was reportedly opposed to early discharge. Braginsky, Grosse, and Ring (1966) demonstrated experimentally that psychiatric patients may actively engage in presenting self-images which are consistent with personal goals for early discharge or for maintained hospitalization, that is, they fake mental health or illness respectively. The term "impression management " was borrowed from Goffman (19S9) to refer to this kind of manipulative interpersonal behavior on the

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