Unpleasant and pleasant events, and mood

✍ Scribed by Sally J. Grosscup; Peter M. Lewinsohn

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 637 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<252::aid-jclp2270360131>3.0.co;2-s

✦ Synopsis

Investigated the relationships between the daily occurrence of aversive events, depressed mood, and the enjoyment of pleasant events in a sample of 21 depressed patients. Participants were assessed pre-, post-, and 1 month after treatment, on the Pleasant Events Schedule the Unp easant Events Schedule, MMPI, Beck Depression Inventory and Grhker Interview Checklist. During treatment participants rated their mood and also indicated the occurrence and degree of (un)pleasantness for 80 of their most leasant and for 80 of their most unpleasant events each day over a 42-88 period. Significant aasociations were found between depressed mood a d unpleasant events, and between unpleasant events and the pleasantness of pleasant events.

There was also a significant decrease in experienced aversiveness concomitant with clinical improvement.