Depresja a emocjonalne konsekwencje deprecjonującej i faworyzującej autoprezentacji

Abstract

The aim of the study was to compare the level of anxiety of participants with different levels of depression symptoms in four different experimental conditions: deprecating self-presentation in the situation of failure, enhancing self-presentation in the situation of failure, deprecating self-presentation in the situation of success, enhancing selfpresentation in the situation of success. 220 secondary school students completed two questionnaires: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Participants with depressive tendencies in comparison to the non-depressed ones experienced a fall of situational anxiety after enhancing self-presentation in the situation of success (primarily) and in the situation of failure. Other kinds of experimental conditions did not cause diversified changes in the level of anxiety of participants with different level of depressing symptoms.