Social Psychology 360 midterm

A period of self-discrepancy for me was in school . I went through a period where I was depressed and anxious . There were moments I couldn 't concentrate , think straight , or want to be around other people . Except there was a problem I didn 't know I was depressed or anxious , and I didn 't know why

I found help the campus provided a resource that gave me an outlet to talk my problems out . Counseling helped provide a name for the problem and closure for some of the issues causing the problems . It

turned out that some of my problems were more me changing my behavior and my attitude towards another person

The issue that brought on the symptoms was memories of my best friend who I watched get killed by a car . At the time I blamed my dad for the accident . So , I was depressed and angry at my parents for quite a while . Today my relationships are healing and are almost whole again But , part of me still longs for closure

The results for female participants represent a partial replication and extension of the results reported in Grimmell and Stern (1992 . When depressed mood is measured by the DACL , the discrepancy between self and ideal on gender role traits tends to be a more powerful predictor of depressed mood than is personal gender role alone , an effect which shows up most clearly when all self-ratings and all self-discrepancies are treated as clusters rather than analyzed one at a time . Self-discrepancy also remains a significant predictor of mood even after controlling for locus of control , attributional style , and self-efficacy . These results suggest that , among females , the comparison of self to an idealized other may be more important for mental health than self-opinion alone (Grimmell , D , 1998 , 209

Grimmell stated above that many females compare themselves to others and sometimes it pays a toll on their mood . Sometimes their mental health is put at risk as well

Fear-arousing communications can have different effects on people Some people who participate in a negative activity like smoking it may not make one bit of difference what is said to discourage the behavior Then there are pro-life and pro-choice commercials , they show the negative side of abortion or losing their choice to have an abortion

Techniques of fear arousal have an ancient history , dating to pre-Aristotelian Greek treatises on persuasion . They have also been a staple in American preaching , appearing first in the revivalistic Great Awakening of the mid-eighteenth century ( Quimby and Billigmeier , 1959 :217 . One finds them today in the sermons of such widely known and diverse preachers as Billy Graham , Jerry Falwell , and Jimmy Swaggart These techniques associate threatening or painful consequences with an action which a speaker wishes his listeners to avoid or stop . In advertising , they might involve the association of tooth decay with poor dental hygiene . In preaching , the threat of eternal damnation might be linked with rejecting the Christian message . The effectiveness of fear arousal techniques...