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Christoph, Bernhard – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Among the surprising results of research on the relation between a person's material circumstances and his or her subjective well-being was the finding that this relationship appears to be rather weak (throughout this paper the terms "(general) life satisfaction", "(subjective) satisfaction", "happiness" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Income, Life Satisfaction

Klemp, George O.; Rodin, Judith – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1976
The hypotheses of informational cognitive control, based on the idea that being able to predict the occurrence of an unpleasant event facilitates a reduction of its impact, has not received clear support in previous research. This experiment investigates the effects of three variables on subjective reactions to mild electric shock. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Attention, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Patterns, Research Methodology

Atkinson, Carolyn; Polivy, Janet – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976
Investigates whether an increase in anger in response to an attack should be accompanied by an increase in depression, if the opportunity to retaliate against the provoker should reduce both depression and anger, and measures outward hostility of males and females as well as verbal hostility in females. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Aggression, Hostility, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Patterns

And Others; Price, Kenneth P. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
This study was undertaken to extend the learned helplessness phenomenon to a clinical population and to test the competing hypotheses of Seligman and Lewinsohn. 96 male hospitalized psychiatric and medical patients were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. Results replicate the learned helplessness phenomenon in a group of…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Helplessness, Hypothesis Testing, Illustrations

Hammen, Constance L.; Krantz, Susan – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976
Attempts to demonstrate that depressed individuals, as compared with nondepressed, exhibit characteristic patterns of response to feedback that may reflect biases in their evaluations and interpretations of self, situation, and the future. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Patterns, Psychological Studies

Nelson, R. Eric; Craighead, W. Edward – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1977
This study was designed to test two sets of hypotheses derived from cognitive-behavioral theories of depression. Discusses the implications of the results for cognitive and behavioral theories of depression. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Feedback, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Patterns

Sirota, Alan D.; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1976
Hypothesized that biofeedback training for fear-relevant physiological changes might provide a useful therapeutic strategy to influence directly a person's reaction to anxiety-inducing situations. (Author)
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Charts, Emotional Response, Heart Rate
Sellbom, Martin; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; McNulty, John L.; Arbisi, Paul A.; Graham, John R. – Assessment, 2006
The frequency, origin, and interpretative implications of elevation differences on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) clinical and restructured clinical (RC) scales were examined. Two large clinical samples consisting of 1,770 outpatients and 2,438 inpatients were used for this study. Three potential factors…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Patients, Correlation, Individual Differences

Calhoun, Lawrence G.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1977
Investigates the effects of situational constraint and type of causal explanation on the degree to which described behavior would be perceived as evidencing "mental illness" and the degree to which it would lead to social rejection. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Personality Studies

And Others; Wortman, Camille B. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1976
The experiment tested the hypothesis that the stress experienced by a person who is unable to control aversive stimulation is not a function of lack of control per se, but of the attribution of causality that one makes for failure to exert control. (Editor)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Helplessness, Hypothesis Testing