Date of Award

6-23-2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Department of Psychology: Clinical-Counseling Psychology

First Advisor

Daniel G. Lannin

Abstract

In today’s American culture, people experience high rates of distress and depression (Kessler et al., 2005). Self-affirmation theory has been shown to help people reduce stress and defensiveness in the face of a wide variety of stressors. A shortcoming of self-affirmation exercises is that there are barriers to using them in naturalistic settings. One such barrier is that the affirmation content needs to be regulated so that it is not closely related to the salient stressor or else the effects of the affirmation could be counteracted. The current study sought to use a prompt-guided value selection for the self-affirmation exercise in order to bypass the need for researcher intervention in the values selection process. The results of a three-way ANOVA showed that the two prompt-guided self-affirmation conditions were not significantly different that the control condition for any of the measures used. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Comments

Imported from ProQuest Wicker_ilstu_0092N_11524.pdf

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2019.Wicker.I

Page Count

59

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