Swearingen E M, Cohen L H
Am J Community Psychol. 1985 Feb;13(1):69-85. doi: 10.1007/BF00923260.
The first of these two studies examined the relationship between adolescents' scores on a social desirability questionnaire and scores of negative, positive, and total life events. Only number of positive events was significantly related to social desirability. The second study compared various scoring strategies with respect to their intercorrelation and their ability to predict adolescents' maladjustment (depression, anxiety, and number of missed school days). The results demonstrated that (a) total number of events and readjustment-weighted life change scores were equally predictive of the maladjustment criteria; (b) negative events, but not positive events, however scored, were significantly related to the maladjustment criteria; (c) indices based on psychologist-judges' ratings of event desirability were not more predictive of the maladjustment criteria than were indices based on the adolescents' self-reports; and (d) uncontrollable negative events and controllable negative events were equally predictive of the maladjustment criteria.
这两项研究中的第一项考察了青少年在社会期望问卷上的得分与消极、积极和生活事件总分之间的关系。只有积极事件的数量与社会期望显著相关。第二项研究比较了各种计分策略在相互关联以及预测青少年适应不良（抑郁、焦虑和缺课天数）方面的能力。结果表明：（a）事件总数和重新调整加权后的生活变化得分对适应不良标准的预测能力相当；（b）消极事件（无论如何计分）而非积极事件与适应不良标准显著相关；（c）基于心理学家对事件期望的评分得出的指标，在预测适应不良标准方面并不比基于青少年自我报告得出的指标更具预测性；（d）不可控消极事件和可控消极事件对适应不良标准的预测能力相当。
