抑鬱とムードが社会的比較に及ぼす効果--自己開示記述法とフィードバック法

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Gibbons (1986) found the effects of people's depressiveness and mood on social comparison directions, and consequently has greatly influenced subsequent research. We conducted two experiments of university students to reexamine these effects and so on. In Experiment 1, his self-disclosure statement procedure was used for mood induction to examine whether his results were replicated or not. Results revealed that depressed subjects made downward comparison more often than non-depressed ones, although the effect of mood was not significant, and partly replicated his results. In Experiment 2, a bogus-feedback procedure was used for the induction. Results revealed that subjects' depressiveness did not affect their social comparison, and subjects in a negative mood made upward comparison more often than those in a positive mood. This was very different from his results. The correlations between downward comparison and positive self-evaluation were sometimes found in the two experiments. Based on these results, the generality and validity of his findings were discussed.
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