An examination of congruency hypothesis in hopelessness theory of depression.

Takahira, Mieko

doi:10.4992/jjpsy.71.197

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“…Each of the items consists of four statements and respondents are asked to select the statement that best describes the degree to which they experienced the symptom during the past week. Previous research has demonstrated that the BDI is a reliable and valid measure of depressive symptoms with both American and Japanese participants (e.g., Baron & Matsuyama, 1988;Beck, Steer, & Garbin, 1988;Sonoda & Tonan, 1999;Takahira, 2000). In this study, the alpha reliability was .84 for the Japanese sample and .85 for the U.S. sample.…”

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Self‐esteem, perception of relationships, and emotional distress: A cross‐cultural study

Abe

2004

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This study examined the relative importance of self-esteem, family cohesion, and support from friends in predicting depressed mood and anxiety in Japanese and American college students. Contrary to expectations, self-esteem was the strongest predictor of emotional distress in both groups of students. Nevertheless, consistent with predictions derived from Markus and Kitayama's theory of self-construals, family cohesion accounted for a significantly larger percentage of the variance in predicting emotional distress in Japan than in the United States. In both countries, the relations between support from friends and the measures of emotional distress were entirely mediated by self-esteem. However, among Japanese students, family cohesion accounted for additional significant variance in predicting the measures of emotional distress, even after controlling for self-esteem.

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confidence: 56%