Attributional Style and Depression in Multiple Sclerosis

Attributional style and depression.

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined whether attributional style (an individual's explanation of why events happen) is a genetically influenced vulnerability factor for depression. AIMS To investigate whether attributional style is an enduring vulnerability trait for recurrent depression. METHOD As part of the Cardiff Depression Study, we interviewed 108 people with depression and their sib...

Negative attributional style, hopelessness depression and endogenous depression.

The hopelessness theory of depression [Abramson, L. Y., Metalsky, G. I. & Alloy, L. B. (1989). Hopelessness depression: a theory-based subtype of depression. Psychological Review, 96, 358-372.] postulates that a negative attributional style represents a risk factor for a particular constellation of depressive symptoms, termed 'hopelessness depression'. Four studies tested the relation of negati...

Modeling the relations of attributional style, expectancies, and depression.

Structural modeling techniques were used to assess relations of attributional style, expectancies, and depression. According to an initial theoretical model, attributions are directly related to expectancies, and expectancies are directly related to depression, but attributions are only indirectly related to depression by means of their relation to expectancies. The results of Study 1 indicated...

Depression and attributional style: interpretations of important personal events.

The reformulated helplessness model of depression predicts that depressed persons attribute negative life events to internal, stable, and global causes while attributing positive life events to external, unstable, and specific causes. In addition to these hypotheses, the present author predicted that depressed students would attribute negative life events to more controllable causes, compared w...

Attributional Style and Disability Outcome