David C Zuroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 189478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Zuroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuroff |
| SIGNATURE | ZUROFF D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8328-5165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Interpersonal perception and interpersonal spin
INTRODUCTION: Interpersonal spin is an indicator of intraindividual variability in social behavior. Spin is positively related to Neuroticism and is maladaptive, with well-documented deleterious effects on social functioning. The perceptual processes associated with spin and how spin emerges are less well-understood. The present research examines the interpersonal perception of individuals with higher spin and tests whether these perceptual proce…
Autonomous Motivation Moderates the Relation of Self-Criticism to Depressive Symptoms Over One Year
Introduction: This study examined whether motivation moderated the relation between self-criticism and depression over one year in a sample of adults receiving cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT). Methods: Participants (N = 38) completed measures of pre-treatment self-criticism (Time 1), autonomous/controlled motivation for engaging in CBT at the beginning of treatment (Time 2), and interviewer-rated depression at Time 1, and one year after baseline…
The self and depression
We review theory and research pertaining to psychodynamic, social, humanistic, and ethological models of the self and depression and examine research into the neurobiological bases of the self and depression. We provide a narrative review of classic and recent empirical evidence pertaining to these four models of the relation of the self to depression as well as exemplar relevant neurobiological research. Evidence stemming from each of the four t…
What's interpersonal in interpersonal perception? The role of target's attachment in the accuracy of perception
OBJECTIVE: We examined the influence of attachment orientation on the accuracy of perception of negative affect in close relationships. We hypothesized that tracking accuracy of perceiving negative affect (a) would be lower among perceivers and targets with higher attachment avoidance and (b) would be lowest when both the target and perceiver were high on attachment avoidance. Tracking accuracy would be (c) higher among perceivers and targets wit…
Intrapersonal variability in interpersonal perception in romantic relationships
Negative affective reaction to partner's dominant behavior influences satisfaction with romantic relationship
Dominant behavior has been related to lower quality romantic relationships. The present study examined two processes through which dominant behavior affects the quality of romantic relationships: (1) the extent to which the partner's dominance increases the person's negative affect by thwarting the person's sense of autonomy and (2) the degree to which the person's negative affect in reaction to the partner's dominant behavior affects relationshi…
Consequences of interpersonal spin on couple-relevant goal progress and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships
Large fluctuations in a person's interpersonal behavior across situations and over time are thought to be associated with poor personal and interpersonal outcomes. This study examined 2 outcomes, relationship satisfaction and goal progress, that could be associated with individual differences in dispersion of interpersonal behavior (interpersonal spin) in romantic relationships. Need satisfaction and perceived autonomy support for goal pursuit fr…
The Role of Perfectionism in Daily Self‐Esteem, Attachment, and Negative Affect
This study of university students (64 men, 99 women) examined the role of self‐critical ( SC ) and personal standards ( PS ) higher order dimensions of perfectionism in daily self‐esteem, attachment, and negative affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end of the day for 7 consecutive days. Trait and situational influences were found in the daily reports of self‐esteem, attachment, and affect. In contrast to PS perfectionism, SC perf…
Social relationships and intraindividual variability in interpersonal behavior
Personality constructs are typically conceptualized as central tendencies of the individual. We explore whether dynamic personality constructs that quantify the within-individual variability of behavior across situations and over time predict the closeness of social relationships. We focused on interpersonal spin, defined as the degree of dispersion in a person's interpersonal behaviors around the interpersonal circumplex across situations and ov…
Leaders' and Followers' Social Rank Styles Interact to Predict Group Performance
In the current study we extended the research of Zuroff, Fournier, Patall, and Leybman (2010) who found that individuals differ in their use of dominant leadership (DL), coalition building (CB), and ruthless self-advancement (RSA) when trying to secure rank among peers. In this study we examined whether the interaction of leaders' and followers' social rank styles, composed of these 3 dimensions, would influence group performance. Groups of 4 und…
Tryptophan and interpersonal spin
Attachment-related affective dynamics
We examined the influences of attachment orientations on within-person changes in affect as a function of perceptions of the interaction partner's agreeable behavior in interactions involving a romantic partner and other kinds of partners. Working adults reported affect, perceptions of the other person's behavior, and the relationship with the other in interpersonal events during 20 days. As expected, the within-person association between perceiv…
The interpersonal signature
Integrating dispositions, signatures, and the interpersonal domain
A person's behavior across situations can be characterized in terms of a mean level (disposition), a dispersion within the person around that mean level, and a stable organization to the pattern of dispersion (signature). The authors' goals were to examine the structure and stability of behavior, both at the level of behavioral dispositions and at the level of behavioral signatures. Participants completed event-contingent records of their social …
Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
This study investigated the distinction between neediness and connectedness as measured by the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; Blatt, D'Afflitti, & Quinlan, 1976) by examining the association between these personality scales and: (1) depression severity, (2) the domains and facets of the Five Factor Model of Personality (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1985, 1992), and (3) attachment style in a university student sample and in a clinical sample o…
Robust predictors of flux, pulse, and spin
Gender and relationships
The present research examined the moderating influence of situations involving friends and romantic partners on gender differences in interpersonal behaviors reflecting agency and communion. Behavior was studied in three situations varying in social role and dyadic gender composition: same‐sex friendships, opposite‐sex friendships, and romantic relationships. To obtain multiple events representing each relationship situation, participants recorde…
Investing in the Personality Vulnerability Research Program--Current Dividends and Future Growth
The authors do not see any benefit to J. C. Coyne, R. Thompson, and V. Whiffen’s (2004) proposal todraw sharp boundaries between psychodynamic vulnerability theories, research on the onset of syndro-mal depression, and research with vulnerable, nondepressed populations. These domains have been andremain mutually relevant. Coyne et al. did not bring forward new evidence concerning the 6 issuesaddressed by D. C. Zuroff, M. Mongrain, and D. A. Santo…
Flux, Pulse, and Spin
Personality constructs were proposed to describe intraindividual variability in interpersonal behavior. Flux refers to variability about an individual's mean score on an interpersonal dimension and was examined for the 4 poles of the interpersonal circumplex. Pulse and spin refer to variability about an individual's mean extremity and mean angular coordinate on the interpersonal circumplex. These constructs were measured using event-contingent re…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Personality Vulnerability to Depression
J. C. Coyne and V. E. Whiffen (1995) reviewed research on personality vulnerability to depression, focusing on S. J. Blatt's (1974, 1990) concepts of dependency and self-criticism and A. T. Beck's (1983) concepts of sociotropy and autonomy. The authors discuss 6 issues raised in that review: (a) the typological or dimensional nature of vulnerability, (b) the theoretical implications of "mixed" vulnerability, (c) the relations of vulnerability to …
Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect
This study of university students (64 men and 99 women) examined both dispositional and situational influences of self-critical (SC) perfectionism on stress and coping, which explain its association with high negative affect and low positive affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end of the day for 7 consecutive days. Structural equation modeling indicated that the relation between SC perfectionism and daily affect could be explaine…
Social rank strategies in hierarchical relationships
Social rank theorists propose that threat appraisals evoke escalation behavior toward subordinates and de-escalation behavior toward superiors. These hypotheses were examined among records of behavior sampled ecologically from the work environments of 90 individuals. At the level of the event, situated threat appraisals (feeling criticized) predicted different kinds of behavior across status situations. Individuals tended to quarrel when criticiz…
Social Motives, Social Support, and Distress in Gay Men Differing in HIV Status
Adolescent Self-Handicapping, Depressive Affect, and Maternal Parenting Styles
Dependency, Self-Criticism, and Mothers' Responses to Adolescent Sons' Autonomy and Competence
Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect
This study of university students (64 men and 99 women) examined both dispositional and situational influences of self-critical (SC) perfectionism on stress and coping, which explain its association with high negative affect and low positive affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end of the day for 7 consecutive days. Structural equation modeling indicated that the relation between SC perfectionism and daily affect could be explaine…
Integrating dispositions, signatures, and the interpersonal domain
A person's behavior across situations can be characterized in terms of a mean level (disposition), a dispersion within the person around that mean level, and a stable organization to the pattern of dispersion (signature). The authors' goals were to examine the structure and stability of behavior, both at the level of behavioral dispositions and at the level of behavioral signatures. Participants completed event-contingent records of their social …
The interpersonal signature
Flux, Pulse, and Spin
Personality constructs were proposed to describe intraindividual variability in interpersonal behavior. Flux refers to variability about an individual's mean score on an interpersonal dimension and was examined for the 4 poles of the interpersonal circumplex. Pulse and spin refer to variability about an individual's mean extremity and mean angular coordinate on the interpersonal circumplex. These constructs were measured using event-contingent re…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Personality Vulnerability to Depression
J. C. Coyne and V. E. Whiffen (1995) reviewed research on personality vulnerability to depression, focusing on S. J. Blatt's (1974, 1990) concepts of dependency and self-criticism and A. T. Beck's (1983) concepts of sociotropy and autonomy. The authors discuss 6 issues raised in that review: (a) the typological or dimensional nature of vulnerability, (b) the theoretical implications of "mixed" vulnerability, (c) the relations of vulnerability to …
Interpersonal consequences of overt self-criticism
Social relationships and intraindividual variability in interpersonal behavior
Personality constructs are typically conceptualized as central tendencies of the individual. We explore whether dynamic personality constructs that quantify the within-individual variability of behavior across situations and over time predict the closeness of social relationships. We focused on interpersonal spin, defined as the degree of dispersion in a person's interpersonal behaviors around the interpersonal circumplex across situations and ov…
Social rank strategies in hierarchical relationships
Social rank theorists propose that threat appraisals evoke escalation behavior toward subordinates and de-escalation behavior toward superiors. These hypotheses were examined among records of behavior sampled ecologically from the work environments of 90 individuals. At the level of the event, situated threat appraisals (feeling criticized) predicted different kinds of behavior across status situations. Individuals tended to quarrel when criticiz…
Robust predictors of flux, pulse, and spin
Depressive styles in adolescence
Construct validation of the dependency and self-criticism scales of the depressive experiences questionnaire
Consequences of interpersonal spin on couple-relevant goal progress and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships
Large fluctuations in a person's interpersonal behavior across situations and over time are thought to be associated with poor personal and interpersonal outcomes. This study examined 2 outcomes, relationship satisfaction and goal progress, that could be associated with individual differences in dispersion of interpersonal behavior (interpersonal spin) in romantic relationships. Need satisfaction and perceived autonomy support for goal pursuit fr…
Development of Self-Criticism in Adolescent Girls
Dependency, self-criticism, and perceptions of inferiority at summer camp
Intrapersonal variability in interpersonal perception in romantic relationships
Negative affective reaction to partner's dominant behavior influences satisfaction with romantic relationship
Dominant behavior has been related to lower quality romantic relationships. The present study examined two processes through which dominant behavior affects the quality of romantic relationships: (1) the extent to which the partner's dominance increases the person's negative affect by thwarting the person's sense of autonomy and (2) the degree to which the person's negative affect in reaction to the partner's dominant behavior affects relationshi…
Was Gordon Allport a trait theorist
Le concept de trait est analyse dans son acception contemporaine et dans la theorie interactionniste d'Allport et discute par rapport a la notion de variabilite des situations
Dependency, Self-Criticism, and Mothers' Responses to Adolescent Sons' Autonomy and Competence
Judgments of frequency of social stimuli
Attachment-related affective dynamics
We examined the influences of attachment orientations on within-person changes in affect as a function of perceptions of the interaction partner's agreeable behavior in interactions involving a romantic partner and other kinds of partners. Working adults reported affect, perceptions of the other person's behavior, and the relationship with the other in interpersonal events during 20 days. As expected, the within-person association between perceiv…
Social Motives, Social Support, and Distress in Gay Men Differing in HIV Status
Dependency and Distress at Summer Camp
Situational dieting self-efficacy and short-term regulation of eating
An Instrument for Measuring the Behavioral Dimension of Social Anxiety
A review of the literature suggested a need for a behavioral measure of characteristic social anxiety, and Rehm and Marston's (1968) role-playing technique was adapted as an analog. This technique requires subjects to place themselves imaginatively in a series of anxiety-producing social situations which are described on a tape recording; their task is to respond to a line of dialog spoken by someone in the situation. Two equivalent test forms we…
Distortions of Memory in Depressed, Formerly Depressed, and Never Depressed College Students
Depressed, formerly depressed, and never depressed female college students were randomly assigned to success, failure, or neutral experiences on a sham measure of empathy ( ns = 12/cell). They then read descriptions of their supposed positive and negative intellectual and personality characteristics, and took a recognition memory test. Based on Beck's (1967) theory, it was predicted that depressed subjects would display negative biasing of memory…
Learned helplessness in humans
Dependency and self-criticism
Person, situation, and person-by-situation interaction components in person perception
The hypothesis that people store situation and person-by-situation interaction information as well as trait information about one another's behavior was tested by administering modified S-R Inventories of Anxiousness and Hostility to 54 male and 59 female undergraduates. Subjects rated the strength of affect that would be evoked by a series of situations in the two same-sex college students whom they knew best, the best-known opposite-sex person,…
Construct validation of the dependency and self-criticism scales of the depressive experiences questionnaire
Children and affect
Thirty-two children, aged 6 to 11, were interviewed concerning their responses to distressing situations. Results indicate that the children possessed expectancies for coping with both sadness and anger. Coping strategies were predominantly behavioral, verbalized, and self-oriented; the most common was to engage in a distracting activity. Strategies employed with parents differed from those used with peers, and girls reported higher proportions o…
Was Gordon Allport a trait theorist
Le concept de trait est analyse dans son acception contemporaine et dans la theorie interactionniste d'Allport et discute par rapport a la notion de variabilite des situations
Interpersonal consequences of overt self-criticism
Ideal and Actual Romantic Partners of Women Varying in Dependency and Self‐Criticism
The Dependency and Self‐Criticism scales of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (Blatt, D'Afflitti, & Quinlan, 1976) were used to assess 66 college women's vulnerabilities to (a) depressive states characterized by feelings of dependency and loneliness and (b) states characterized by self‐criticism and guilt Subjects rated three motivational characteristics of their ideal boyfriends‐their needs for Intimacy, Achievement, and Masculinity Women…
Judgments of frequency of social stimuli
Situational dieting self-efficacy and short-term regulation of eating
Interpersonal relatedness and self-definition
This paper reviews recent research that indicates the importance of differentiating subtypes of depression based on two types of experiences that lead individuals to become depressed: (a) disruptions of interpersonal relations and (b) threats to self-integrity and self-esteem. We review research with clinical and nonclinical samples that investigated the relationships of these distinctions to the quality of current interpersonal relationships and…
A Measure of Overt Self-Criticism
A measure of overt self-criticism was constructed and validated for 38 high and low scorers out of 300 undergraduates, using reports by knowledgeable others
Depressive styles in adolescence
Dependency, self-criticism, and perceptions of inferiority at summer camp
Dependency and Distress at Summer Camp
Dependency, Self-Criticism, and Mothers' Responses to Adolescent Sons' Autonomy and Competence
Development of Self-Criticism in Adolescent Girls
Social Motives, Social Support, and Distress in Gay Men Differing in HIV Status
Adolescent Self-Handicapping, Depressive Affect, and Maternal Parenting Styles
Social rank strategies in hierarchical relationships
Social rank theorists propose that threat appraisals evoke escalation behavior toward subordinates and de-escalation behavior toward superiors. These hypotheses were examined among records of behavior sampled ecologically from the work environments of 90 individuals. At the level of the event, situated threat appraisals (feeling criticized) predicted different kinds of behavior across status situations. Individuals tended to quarrel when criticiz…
Self-critical perfectionism and daily affect
This study of university students (64 men and 99 women) examined both dispositional and situational influences of self-critical (SC) perfectionism on stress and coping, which explain its association with high negative affect and low positive affect. Participants completed questionnaires at the end of the day for 7 consecutive days. Structural equation modeling indicated that the relation between SC perfectionism and daily affect could be explaine…
Gender and relationships
The present research examined the moderating influence of situations involving friends and romantic partners on gender differences in interpersonal behaviors reflecting agency and communion. Behavior was studied in three situations varying in social role and dyadic gender composition: same‐sex friendships, opposite‐sex friendships, and romantic relationships. To obtain multiple events representing each relationship situation, participants recorde…
Investing in the Personality Vulnerability Research Program--Current Dividends and Future Growth
The authors do not see any benefit to J. C. Coyne, R. Thompson, and V. Whiffen’s (2004) proposal todraw sharp boundaries between psychodynamic vulnerability theories, research on the onset of syndro-mal depression, and research with vulnerable, nondepressed populations. These domains have been andremain mutually relevant. Coyne et al. did not bring forward new evidence concerning the 6 issuesaddressed by D. C. Zuroff, M. Mongrain, and D. A. Santo…
Psychology (43 works) · Social Psychology (38 works) · Developmental psychology (34 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (18 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (17 works) · Interpersonal communication (16 works) · Personality (15 works) · Interpersonal relationship (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works)