Developing scales to measure the sense-of-acceptance and rejection and investigating the depressive process

Abstract

It has been suggested that a low Sense-of-Acceptance (SOA: Sugiyama, 2002) is one feature of a depressive self-others system. However, it is difficult to explain the depressive-self-process exclusively through this concept. Sense-of-Rejection (SOR) is proposed as a psychological concept that directly contributes to the depressive-self-process. The SOA and SOR measurement scales were developed based on the results of factor analysis. The reliability (test-retest reliability and internal consistency) and concurrent validity of the scales were established based on their correlation with the attachment style scale (Toda, 1998). Furthermore, covariance structure analysis examined the hypothesis that self-preoccupation mediates the depressive processes in SOA and SOR (Sakamoto, 1997). The results suggest that SOR is concerned with the depressive-self-process and that SOA is concerned with depression.View full abstract