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An evaluation of brief adaptive inferential feedback training: assessing the gains of training individuals to provide a specific type of social support
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Drexel University
Jul 2003
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-283
Abstract
Increasing perceived social support may be an important strategy for preventing the development of depression, especially for individuals who are vulnerable to depression because of the stressors they face, inadequate coping skills, or depressogenic thinking styles (e.g., McCall, Reboussin & Rapp, 2001; Heller, Price & Hogg, 1990). However, the field of social support has been criticized for lack of consensus regarding the numerous definitions of social support, and it has therefore been difficult to harness its therapeutic potential in training protocols and specific interventions (e.g., Brand, Lakey & Berman, 1995). Panzarella and Alloy (1995) identified a subtype of social support, adaptive inferential feedback, which is precisely defined and allowed for the development of a training protocol to teach others specific guidelines for providing this type of social support. The current study was the first evaluation of the effectiveness of an adaptive inferential feedback training protocol. Two hundred forty two participants (121 participant-partner pairs) were randomly assigned into either the adaptive inferential feedback group or control group. Each participant selected a partner for the study who was a close confidant and with whom the participant shared a mutually supportive relationship. Participants in the adaptive inferential feedback group received adaptive inferential feedback training, and participants in the control group did not receive training. As expected, individuals who received the adaptive inferential feedback training protocol demonstrated a significant increase in the frequency of adaptive inferential feedback statements offered over time, compared to those in the control group. However, measures of the partner' s depressed mood, perceived social support and perceived adaptive inferential feedback following participants' receipt of adaptive inferential feedback training did not significantly differ between groups or over time. Additional studies evaluating the result of receiving adaptive inferential feedback need to be conducted to demonstrate a beneficial effect on a partner before the training protocol is implemented and further applied. If future research documents the benefits of receiving adaptive inferential feedback from a natural support provider, the adaptive inferential feedback-training protocol could easily be implemented within a variety of health facilities and broader applications of the adaptive inferential feedback protocol should be considered.
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- Title
- An evaluation of brief adaptive inferential feedback training
- Creators
- Jennifer Anne Nesbitt Fernandez - DU
- Contributors
- Pamela A. Geller (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)Catherine Panzarella (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology); College of Arts and Sciences; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 283; 991014632711104721