PREVIOUS PERSONAL-EXPERIENCE AND REACTIONS TO DEPRESSION AND PHYSICAL-DISABILITY Academic Article

abstract

• Interpersonal models of depression posit that the display of depressive behavior elicits interpersonal rejection and devaluation from others. Two experiments are reported that examined the effects of prior experience with people with disability on interpersonal reactions to depression expressed by a person with a disability. In the first study, subjects rejected further involvement with the depressed person and perceived this person to be socially impaired. In the second study, subjects ascribed significantly more negative personal characteristics to the depressed person and evidenced more stereotypic attitudes toward persons with disability than subjects who viewed the nondepressed person. These results provide evidence that regardless of prior personal experience with people with disability, subjects have negative perceptions and beliefs about a depressed person with a disability.

authors

• Elliott, Timothy

published proceedings

• REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

• ELLIOTT, T. R., FRANK, R. G., CORCORAN, J., BEARDON, L., & BYRD, E. K.

complete list of authors

• ELLIOTT, TR||FRANK, RG||CORCORAN, J||BEARDON, L||BYRD, EK

publisher

• American Psychological Association (APA)  Publisher

published in

• Rehabilitation Psychology  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1037//0090-5550.35.2.111

start page

• 111

end page

• 119

volume

• 35

issue

• 2