The relationship between interpersonal schemas and depressive symptomatology

Turkish university students (187 men and 191 women), 17-27 years old, parti cipated in this study. They completed the Interpersonal Schema Questionnair e (C. Hill & J. Safran, 1994) and the Beck Depression Inventory (A. Beck, A . Rush, B. Shaw, & G. Emery, 1979). This study extended the research that w as conducted by Hill and Safran (1994). The results of this study revealed that individuals in the high-depressive symptomatology group expected less complementary responses from significant others in friendly, dominant, and submissive situations. They expected more complementary responses from them in hostile situations. They also rated their expected responses from other s as more undesirable than did individuals in the low-depressive symptomato logy group. These findings seem to be congruent with cognitive and interper sonal theories of depression.