Disclosure of depression - third party attitudes
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sara Emily Burke, Syracuse University; Katie Wang, Yale University; John F. Dovidio, Yale University
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Burke, Sara Emily, Wang, Katie, and Dovidio, John F. Disclosure of depression - third party attitudes. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-07-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/E146001V1
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This archive contains the data reported in the following paper.
Burke, S. E., Wang, K., & Dovidio, J. F. (2014). Witnessing disclosure of depression: Gender and attachment avoidance moderate interpersonal evaluations. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 33(6), 536–559. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2014.33.6.536
The paper describes two main studies, referred to as Study 1 and Study 2. We ran a third study and described it only in a footnote (footnote 2 on page 552). The data files for all three studies are in their respective folders here.
Data were collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk from 2011 to 2013. Study 1 took place from 2011-11-20 to 2011-11-29, Study 2 from 2012-02-15 to 2012-04-09, and the study in the footnote from 2013-04-09 to 2013-04-24.
In all three data files, values of -99 indicate that the participant saw the item but chose not to respond to it.
I recognize that the documentation of this project could be more detailed. I have many projects that could benefit from additional public documentation. If you are using the data, please reach out to me via email and I can prioritize sharing more information about this one. My most up-to-date email address should be available at saraemilyburke.com/contact.html.
Here is the abstract of the paper referenced above:
People with depression often face the decision of whether or not to disclose their condition to others. Although much is known about how people tend to respond as recipients of emotional disclosure, third-party perceptions of disclosers have remained largely unexamined despite the fact that everyday disclosure conversations typically happen in the context of larger social networks in which some people already know about the stigmatized condition. The present work investigated how gender and attachment avoidance, two individual difference variables commonly implicated in interpersonal evaluations, moderate the responses of third-party observers to information concerning depression disclosure decisions. Across two studies, U.S. adults evaluated a target who chose to disclose or conceal some stigmatizing information. In Study 1, the type of stigma was manipulated (depression versus chronic physical pain), and the target ratings were compared across participant gender. In Study 2, all participants read scenarios featuring a target with depression and completed a measure of attachment styles. We found that, while women in general and men low in attachment avoidance evaluated depression disclosers more positively than concealers, men high in attachment avoidance preferred concealment over disclosure. These results illustrate the complexity surrounding the decision of disclosing depression and other emotion-laden stigmatizing information.
Burke, S. E., Wang, K., & Dovidio, J. F. (2014). Witnessing disclosure of depression: Gender and attachment avoidance moderate interpersonal evaluations. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 33(6), 536–559. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2014.33.6.536
The paper describes two main studies, referred to as Study 1 and Study 2. We ran a third study and described it only in a footnote (footnote 2 on page 552). The data files for all three studies are in their respective folders here.
Data were collected via Amazon Mechanical Turk from 2011 to 2013. Study 1 took place from 2011-11-20 to 2011-11-29, Study 2 from 2012-02-15 to 2012-04-09, and the study in the footnote from 2013-04-09 to 2013-04-24.
In all three data files, values of -99 indicate that the participant saw the item but chose not to respond to it.
I recognize that the documentation of this project could be more detailed. I have many projects that could benefit from additional public documentation. If you are using the data, please reach out to me via email and I can prioritize sharing more information about this one. My most up-to-date email address should be available at saraemilyburke.com/contact.html.
Here is the abstract of the paper referenced above:
People with depression often face the decision of whether or not to disclose their condition to others. Although much is known about how people tend to respond as recipients of emotional disclosure, third-party perceptions of disclosers have remained largely unexamined despite the fact that everyday disclosure conversations typically happen in the context of larger social networks in which some people already know about the stigmatized condition. The present work investigated how gender and attachment avoidance, two individual difference variables commonly implicated in interpersonal evaluations, moderate the responses of third-party observers to information concerning depression disclosure decisions. Across two studies, U.S. adults evaluated a target who chose to disclose or conceal some stigmatizing information. In Study 1, the type of stigma was manipulated (depression versus chronic physical pain), and the target ratings were compared across participant gender. In Study 2, all participants read scenarios featuring a target with depression and completed a measure of attachment styles. We found that, while women in general and men low in attachment avoidance evaluated depression disclosers more positively than concealers, men high in attachment avoidance preferred concealment over disclosure. These results illustrate the complexity surrounding the decision of disclosing depression and other emotion-laden stigmatizing information.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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depression;
concealable stigma;
disclosure;
gender;
attachment style
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United States of America
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