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- Title
Attributional Style as a Predictor of Hopelessness Depression.
- Authors
Sturman, Edward D.; Mongrain, Myriam; Kohn, Paul M.
- Abstract
Stable and global attributions for negative events were tested as predictors of hopelessness depression symptoms, obtained from a diagnostic interview for a past depressive episode in a sample of 102 graduate students. All participants were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, Personal Style Inventory, and a modified version of the Extended Attributional Style Questionnaire. A stable and global attributional style for negative events was significantly associated with a composite of hopelessness depression symptoms. A regression analysis revealed that attributional style significantly postdicted hopelessness depression symptoms when controlling for both sociotropy and autonomy. Structural equation modeling supported a model in which stable and global attributions predicted a latent variable, which we refer to as a motivational deficit, involving psychomotor retardation and fatigue as indicators. Therefore, this study obtained some support for the hopelessness model and highlights the vulnerability posed by attributional style (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989).
- Subjects
ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); HOPELESSNESS theory of depression; GRADUATE students; STRUCTURED Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders; PERSONAL Style Inventory; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; FATIGUE (Physiology)
- Publication
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2006, Vol 20, Issue 4, p447
- ISSN
0889-8391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1891/jcpiq-v20i4a008