A researcher collected evidence about how people responded to difficult experiences.
| Study situation | Result |
|---|---|
| Employees were moved from supervisory posts into non-supervisory posts during the same organisation-wide restructuring. | Later, 16% of those reporting strong social support met the criteria for clinical depression, compared with 39% of those reporting little social support. |
| People receiving treatment for clinical depression described their extreme negative beliefs. | 74% reported that these beliefs appeared without conscious choice, and 63% reported being unable to change them despite trying. |
Explain why the findings create a weakness for each explanation of clinical depression: social rank theory and the ABC model.
144 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 3.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 3.2.1 Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia, 3.2.2 Key statistics of schizophrenia, 3.2.3 Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, 3.2.4 Brain structure and function in schizophrenia; criticisms, 3.2.5 Social drift theory of schizophrenia, 3.2.6 Schizophrenia research study: Daniel et al. (1991), 3.2.7 Clinical characteristics of clinical depression, 3.2.8 Key statistics of clinical depression, 3.2.9 Social rank theory of clinical depression, 3.2.10 ABC Model of clinical depression, and 3.2.11 Clinical Depression research study: Tandoc et al. (2015). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.