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Subjective Well-Being as an indicator for clinical depression Student Adriana Gargiulo Supervisor A/ Professor Mark Stokes
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Background Subjective Well-Being (SWB) Homeostasis Theory - Cummins (1995, 1998) SWB (.70 -.80%) SM
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Changing levels of SWB as homeostasis is challenged (Cummins, Lau & Davern, in press).
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Clinical depression = failure of Homeostasis = loss of SWB. Rationale for this research
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Hypothesis: People with clinical depression would have a SWB below the normative range 70-80% of the Scale Maximum (SM).
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Methodology 146 men part of a larger study Personal Well-Being Index-Adult (PWI-A) Semi-structured Clinical Interview (SCID- I/NP)
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Analysis One way Between Subjects ANOVA Psychopathology vs. PWI-A scores
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Means and Standard Deviations of Subjective Well-being Between Groups Levels of the Independent Variable No Psycho- pathology Currently depressed Previously depressed Other non- depressive Psycho- pathology Number of Participants 11014184 Mean82.4060.6182.0667.14 Standard Deviation12.2915.94 8.2314.98
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Mean Effects for Psychopathology
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Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve analysis
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Findings Support for Cummins proposition: Loss of SWB indicates Clinical depression. However, PWI-A not sufficiently specific as a diagnostic tool – PWI-A could be used as a screening tool.
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