INTRODUCTION The role of attribution in psychopathology has been investigated most systematically within the depression context. The presumption which makes people depressive consists, to an excessive degree, of internal, stable and global attributions to negative occurrences. Negative attributions for unpleasant events are associated with the loss of self-respect which follows. OBJECTIVE Estab...

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 ...

The roles of shame and attribution style in developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were examined among 172 Japanese university women with negative sexual experiences (NSEs) using a structural equation model. ‘‘Shame’’ directly predicted PTSD, whereas ‘‘Internal Attribution’’ and ‘‘External Attribution’’ did not. The effect of Internal Attribution on PTSD was mediated by Shame. In a sim...

CONTEXT Paranoid delusions are a common symptom of a range of psychotic disorders. A variety of psychological mechanisms have been implicated in their cause, including a tendency to jump to conclusions, an impairment in the ability to understand the mental states of other people (theory of mind), an abnormal anticipation of threat, and an abnormal explanatory style coupled with low self-esteem....

how to cite this article: najafi fard t, pourmohamadreza-tajrishi m, sajedi f, rezasoltani p, delavar kasmaei h. the effectiveness of attribution retraining on health enhancement of epileptic children. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):53-59. abstract objective epilepsy is a chronic neurological disease. evidence has indicated that epilepsy has an impact on mental and physical health of c...

Explanatory style, the habitual ways in which individuals explain bad events, was extracted from open-ended questionnaires filled out by 99 graduates of the Harvard University classes of 1942-1944 at age 25. Physical health from ages 30 to 60 as measured by physician examination was related to earlier explanatory style. Pessimistic explanatory style (the belief that bad events are caused by sta...