It is a truism of literature that certain authors have a highly recognizable style. The concept of style underlies the authorship attribution techniques that have been applied to tasks such as identifying which of several authors wrote a particular news article. In this paper, we explore whether the works of authors of classic literature can be correctly identified with either of two approaches...

This study examined two senses in which pessimism might be a risk factor for depressive mood among older adults. The first was that a pessimistic explanatory style would predict changes toward depressive mood when combined with stressful life events. The second was that predictive pessimism, or thinking that bad events will happen in the future, would predict changes in depressive symptoms. We ...

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...

Authorship attribution is associated with important applications in forensics and humanities research. A crucial point in this field is to quantify the personal style of writing, ideally in a way that is not affected by changes in topic or genre. In this paper, we present a novel method that enhances authorship attribution effectiveness by introducing a text distortion step before extracting st...

Article history: Received 17 June 2015 Received in revised form 2 January 2016 Accepted 5 January 2016 Available online 15 January 2016 We examined whether burnout is associated with a depressive cognitive style, understood as a combination of dysfunctional attitudes, ruminative responses, and pessimistic attributions. A total of 1386 U.S. public school teachers were included—1063 women (MAGE: ...

This research intends to clarify the future prospects of hospital pharmacists and also the factors which influence on their practices of blood drawing or injection by conducting research on their consciousness. We studied it using mail-in survey targeting on randomly selected 476 hospital pharmacists. Study items were the attribution of responders, the prospects of their status in 10 years late...

OBJECTIVE This study uses the Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) to measure the causal thinking of 42 college students with diagnosed language-based learning disabilities (LD), ADHD, or co-occurring ADHD and LD. Attribution style, or explanatory style, is a term used to describe the tendencies of individuals to think that the causes of meaningful events are internal or external, global or sp...