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Social Functioning In Subclinical Poor-Me And Bad-Me Paranoia, Thomas Bart
Social Functioning In Subclinical Poor-Me And Bad-Me Paranoia, Thomas Bart
Psychology and Counseling Theses
Trower and Chadwick (1995) proposed paranoia as two distinct subtypes: poor-me – defined by strong beliefs of undeserved persecution, and bad-me – defined by strong beliefs of deserved punishment. Social functioning deficits are common in paranoia but have not been assessed within the poor-me and bad-me construct. Fourteen individuals with high levels of subclinical paranoia and 14 individuals with low levels of paranoia completed measures of depression, self-esteem, social functioning, and the emotional Stroop Task. Although there were no significant differences between the two paranoia subtypes on social functioning, a trend showed individuals with bad-me paranoia having more impaired social …
Facial Emotion Recognition Impairments In Subclinical Depression, Charles Hale Leighton
Facial Emotion Recognition Impairments In Subclinical Depression, Charles Hale Leighton
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Depression brings with it a wide variety range of symptoms. One of the least studied symptoms in depression is an impairment in the ability to recognize the emotions on the faces of others. Previous literature has shown both that many people without diagnosed depression still display some depressive symptoms as well as that the impairments in emotion recognition are an extremely common symptom. These impairments are frequently associated with an increase in the severity of other symptoms, which makes their presence in subclinical populations especially important to uncover. In this proposed study, 400 students who don’t meet the diagnostic criteria …