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Self-Derogation and Adjustment to Recent Life Experiences
Howard B. Kaplan, PhD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1970;22(4):324-331.
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ANUMBER of theoretical discussions and reports of empirical studies have asserted strong associations between self-rejecting attitudes and experiences of severe subjective distress (operationally distinguished from self-derogation) or other aspects of psychopathology.1(pp202-235),2(pp372-380),3,4 Other reports have suggested that the phenomenon of self-derogation plays a strategic role in the process by which (socially defined) deviant roles are adopted and stabilized.4-7 These observations imply that investigations of the sociocultural and social-psychological antecedents of self-derogation will at the same time increase understanding of the etiology of a variety of forms of psychosocial deviance. The study under consideration represents such an addition to the growing literature on the correlates of negative self-attitudes.1,8-10 This communication presents findings relevant to two general hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1.—Self-derogation is a direct function of the number of recent life experiences (reported by the subject) requiring adjustment in behavior patterns.
Hypothesis 2.—
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Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 24, 1969.
Reprint requests to the Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston 77025 (Dr. Kaplan).
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