Annotated Bibliography And Summary

Current interventions for minor depression in adolescents have been taken into account. Lin, Hu and Gong (2015) state that simple, smile manipulation could decrease depression and negative moods. A recently reviewed article concerning smile manipulation discusses how facial expressions serve as an importance of emotional feelings. The researchers hypothesized that inducing a smile would have a positive effect on the participants’ emotions. Furthermore, the researchers studied three different types of smiles such as, the Standard smile, Duchenne smile, and no smile. In this study by Lin (2015), the participants included eleven undergraduate students who had been diagnosed with minor depression. The participants in the study were around the ages of twenty-five, and consisted of all native Chinese speakers. Each participant needed to fit a certain criteria before they were able to continue in the study. To fit the criteria, for the study, the participants needed to be at least eighteen years of age, be right-handed, have normal vision, no history of a disorder, and be diagnosed with minor depression. Once each criteria was met, the students were allowed to continue in the participation of the study. …show more content…
The different measuring tests used in the study included, the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17), the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), and the Flanker task. The first test to be used was the Beck Depression Inventory-II. The BDI-II measures the severity of depression an individual has. The test scores the individual from a range of zero to sixty-three. An individual who scores above thirty is considered to have severe depression. On this first test, the participants needed to score between eight and fifteen, to be considered having MinD (Lin et al.,