Recent research has indicated an association between depression and lack of social skill. The present investigation sought to extend these findings to the self-monitoring of expressive behavior by administering Snyder's (1974) Self-monitoring Scale and Beck's (1967) Depression Inventory to samples from two very different populations, community-residing women volunteers and psychiatric patients. It was predicted that nondepressed subjects would tend to be high in self-monitoring their expressive behavior, while depressed subjects would tend to monitor their expressive behavior less. Data from both samples supported this hypothesis and were discussed as evidence for the validity of the self-monitoring scale.
Concurrent and discriminative validity of the MAACL--R scales were studied by means of correlations with selected MMPI experimental scales (AR, DR, HOS, Poor Morale, and ES) for a sample of 88 male VA alcoholics. Concurrent validity of Anxiety, Depression, Hostility and PASS, and discriminative validity of the Anxiety scale were confirmed.
The role of subjects' personal investment or incentive in responding to behavioral role-playing tasks used to assess assertiveness was investigated. Using scores on the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule, subjects were assigned to one of three groups of high, low, or medium assertiveness. All subjects differentially responded to situations designed to elicit high or low personal investment. All subjects tended to exhibit qualitatively better assertive responses with high investment than with low investment. Correlations indicated that subjects' Rathus scores of high and low assertiveness correlated with ratings of their role-playing at the low but not the high level of personal investment.
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