Cognitive-Interpersonal Patterns in Dysphoria: The Impact of Sociotropy and Autonomy

Dysphoric and nondysphoric women who hadpredominantly sociotropic or predominantly autonomouspersonality features were compared on their responses toa standardized interpersonal task in which a confederate acted as a "helper" to plan lifechanges. As predicted, sociotropic subjects, whetherdysphoric or not, were more concerned aboutinterpersonal relatedness in the task, whereasautonomous subjects were more concerned about …