conclusions even though the osgt is an effective technique for inculcating an optimistic attribution style in delinquent boys, this important method needs to be continually implemented in their education. results the results showed that the osgt changed the attributional styles of delinquent boys from pessimistic to optimistic. also, the follow up study showed that the effect on the delinquent ...

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 ...

We tried to verify whether the reformulated Learned Helplessness Model and its more fully articulated form, Hopelessness Theory of Depression, were adequate predict symptoms social functioning (SF) in persons with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders by comparing a clinical group (n = 25) non-clinical one 30). Bivariate correlations multiple linear regressions conducted assess relationships between...

Seligman's theory of causal attribution predicts that patients with a pessimistic explanatory style will have less favourable health outcomes. We identified 702 patients who had undergone 894 primary total knee replacements between 1993 and 2005, who responded to follow-up surveys at two (n = 783 knee replacements) and/or five years (n = 443 knee replacements) and had also completed the Minneso...

Two university varsity swimming teams took the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) at the start of the season. Swimmers with a pessimistic explanatory style wellt on to show more unexpected poor performances during competition titan optimistic swimmers. We then tested the purported mechanism of this effect by experimentally simulating defeat, giving each swimmer falsely negative' times. Per...

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...

BACKGROUND Seligman's theory of causal attribution predicts that patients with a pessimistic explanatory style will have less favorable health outcomes. We investigated this hypothesis using self-reported hip pain and hip function 2- years after total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHODS Most THA patients had completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) during their usual clini...