Explanatory Flexibility and Explanatory Style in Treatment-Seeking Patients with Axis I Psychopathology

The relationship of explanatory flexibility to explanatory style.

Traditional cognitive vulnerability-stress models regarding the etiology of depression emphasize the content of the depressed individual's thoughts. One important cognitive content index, explanatory style, represents the habitual way that individuals assign causes to events that occur in their lives. A more contemporary model, however, emphasizes the cognitive process by which these attributio...

The effect of a negative mood priming challenge on dysfunctional attitudes, explanatory style, and explanatory flexibility.

Ninety-seven undergraduates, 48 of whom had a history of self-reported major depression, completed measures of mood and cognitive style (e.g. explanatory style, explanatory flexibility, dysfunctional attitudes) prior to and directly after a negative mood priming challenge that consisted of listening to sad music and thinking about an upsetting past event. Eighteen of the previously depressed pa...

Pessimistic explanatory style and response to illness.

Previous studies have shown that a pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for illness, but the factors linking explanatory style and illness are unknown. One's characteristic response to poor health may mediate this relationship. Perhaps pessimistic individuals act helplessly in the face of their symptoms, thereby exacerbating disease. In the present study, we investigated this possibil...

Explanatory Style in the Context of Culture

Explanatory Style and Resilience after Sports Failure