Clinical depression and day-to-day social interaction in a community sample.
Adult participants recruited from the community, one half of whom met criteria for clinical depression, described their day-to-day social interactions using a variant of the Rochester Interaction Record. Compared with the nondepressed participants, depressed participants found their interactions to be less enjoyable and less intimate, and they felt less influence over their interactions. Differences between the two groups in intimacy occurred only in interactions with close relations and not in interactions with nonintimates, and differences in influence were more pronounced for those who were cohabiting than for those who were not. There were no differences in how socially active depressed and nondepressed people were or in the amount of contact they had with different relational partners.
Nezlek
J B
JB
Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795, USA. john.nezlek@wm.edu
Hampton
C P
CP
Shean
G D
GD
D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires