OBJECTIVE Researchers have shown that primary care patients utilize global attribution styles to interpret ambiguous physical symptoms, diminishing the ability of practitioners to recognize psychological disorders. The present study examined the extent to which patients' specific beliefs about their presenting symptoms versus their global symptom attribution styles predict physician recognition...

BACKGROUND The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between cognitive distortions and attribution styles among divorce applicant couples and its impact on sexual satisfaction. MATERIALS AND METHODS It was a cross-sectional study and its statistical samples were 55 divorce applicant couples (110 individuals) referred to Urmia courts, Urmia, Iran, from 2012 to 2013. The required ...

This study attempts to examine the relation of forgiveness, and attribution style in addiction prone and non-prone individuals. Population is all undergraduate students of Azad university of Zahedan over 2013-2014. Sample is 300 people that selected based on Multi-stage cluster sampling. This study used Seligman Attribution Style Questionnaire, addiction acknowledgement scale (Weed et al) and H...

ôbjective: this research was conducted to study the relationship between attribution and academic procrastination in üniversity students. methods: the subjects were 203 undergraduate students, 55 males and 148 females, selected from ënglish and french language and literature students of tabriz üniversity. data were gathered through procrastination âssessment scale-student (pâss) and çausal dime...

Highly optimistic explanatory style (HOES) and highly pessimistic explanatory style (HPES) are two maladaptive ways to explain the world and may have roots in attachment insecurity. The current study aims to explore the effects of security priming - activating supportive representations of attachment security - on ameliorating these maladaptive explanatory styles. 57 participants with HOES and ...

Background: One of social problems which has affected our society and resulted in problems for different groups of people is drug abuse. This issue indicates a serious psychological, physical and social problem in community. Social skills have positive and successful influences in prevention of substance abuse. This includes the ability to explain events correctly and then appropriate decision ...

Much of the writing styles recognized in rhetorical and composition theories involve deep syntactic elements. However, most previous research for computational stylometric analysis has relied on shallow lexico-syntactic patterns. Some very recent work has shown that PCFG models can detect distributional difference in syntactic styles, but without offering much insights into exactly what constit...

With such increasing popularity and availability of digital text data, authorships of digital texts can not be taken for granted due to the ease of copying and parsing. This paper presents a new text style analysis called natural frequency zoned word distribution analysis (NFZ-WDA), and then a basic authorship attribution scheme and an open authorship attribution scheme for digital texts based ...