Self and Other Perception in Mild Depressives

Abstract

The present study investigated the effects of mild depression on the processing of personal information about oneself and others. Specifically, mildly depressed and normal subjects rated the applicability of positive and negative personality adjectives to themselves (“Describes you?”), a well-known other (“Describes him or her?”), and their concept of the average person (“Describes others?”). Rating times (RTs) were monitored for each judgment, with all ratings followed immediately by an incidental recall period for the adjectives. In accord with a content-specific self-schema model, normals recalled significantly more positive information about themselves than negative information, and also displayed quicker RTs for schema-consistent positive material. Conversely, mild depressives recalled equal amounts of positive and negative self-referent material. In combination with their longer RTs for both types of judgments, these findings point to a view of self in mild depressives that incorporates both positiv...

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