Abstract

This study investigated cognitive and emotional features of college students who have symptoms of minor depression and whether these features are restricted to the depressed subjects themselves or extended to the perception of other people. After dividing depressed group and nondepressed group on a basis of the BDI score, subjects experienced pleasant or sad emotional situation induced by several songs and a movie. Then subjects responded to the questionnaire measuring depressongenic style and emotional state of the subject one self, a close friend, and a strange student respectively. The results are as follows: First, depressed subjects had stronger depressogenic attributional style than nondepressed subjects. Second, depressed sunjects perceived their attributional style was more depressogenic than a close friend's and a strange stedent's. But nondepressed subjects didn't show any difference among attributional style of their own, perceived attributional style of a close friend and a strange student. Third, depressed subjects felt less pleasure in the pleasant situation and less in the sad situation than nondepressed subjects

• Keywords: depression, attributional style, mood