Cognitive Processes Bias of Self-referent Encoding Task in Depressive College Students / 中国临床心理学杂志

Objective: To test whether depressive college students had sociotropic self-schemata. Methods: A total of 500 college students were surveyed by CES-D and SAS, and 77 college students were chosen for further experiment: 24 with depressive mood, 12 with anxious mood, 17 with both depressive and anxious mood, and 24 normal ones. Sociotropic adjectives were strictly developed, and the 4 groups (depressive vs. anxious vs. depressive and anxious vs. normal) were given Self-referent Encoding Task. Results: ①The depressive group showed significantly less positive adjectives and more negative adjectives for self-descriptive than the normal group (P