Dependency Autonomy Stress and Depression: A Test of an Interactive Model
Year: 2024
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Two diathesis-stress models were used to predict depression. The additive model combined dependency and autonomy (dependency-autonomy) as the diathesis and also combined dependent and autonomous hassles or life events as stressors. The congruent model used either dependency and dependent stressors or autonomy and autonomous stressors. Ninety-seven female and 42 male undergraduate students completed self-report measures of dependency and autonomy, hassles and life events, and depression at three testing sessions one week apart. Hierarchical multiple regressions — with prior depression entered first and followed by dependency and/or autonomy, stress, and their interaction — indicated that additive models with a significant interaction accounted for more variance in predicting depression than did the only congruent model that produced a significant interaction. These results suggest that dependency and autonomy may be non-orthogonal and even components of the same larger construct. Tentative empirical evidence was also found to support Beck's (1983) notion that an individual's predominant personality mode may change over time.
DOI: 10.25776/rzbv-ck30
Author: Drury, Kathryn Kern
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6964390960
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