Joiner T E
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 77555-0425, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1996 Dec;24(6):803-13. doi: 10.1007/BF01664741.
The susceptibility of self-report and thematic measures of depression to the effects of a defensive test-taking approach was assessed among 44 child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients. It was hypothesized that scores on a measure of defensiveness would be associated with self-reported but not thematic measures of depression, and furthermore, that this finding would be more pronounced for girls than boys. Patients completed the Lie Scale of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), and the Roberts Apperception Test for Children. As predicted, RCMAS-Lie scores were significantly associated with CDI but not Roberts Depression scores, and this effect was more pronounced among females, primarily due to the high CDI scores of nondefensive girls. Implications of results for psychological assessment of children and adolescents are discussed.
在44名儿童和青少年精神科住院患者中，评估了抑郁症的自我报告和主题测量对防御性应试方法效果的敏感性。研究假设是，防御性测量的得分将与抑郁症的自我报告测量相关，但与主题测量无关，此外，这一发现对女孩的影响比对男孩更明显。患者完成了修订版儿童显性焦虑量表（RCMAS）的说谎量表、儿童抑郁量表（CDI）和儿童罗伯茨统觉测验。正如预测的那样，RCMAS说谎得分与CDI显著相关，但与罗伯茨抑郁得分无关，并且这种影响在女性中更为明显，主要是由于无防御性女孩的CDI得分较高。讨论了研究结果对儿童和青少年心理评估的意义。
