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Attributional Style and Depressive Mood Reactions
Author(s) -
StiensmeierPelster Joachim
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1989.tb00564.x
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , learned helplessness , mood , diathesis , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , macroeconomics , economics , immunology , biology
According to the reformulated learned helplessness model of depression, individuals who charactenstically attribute negative events to internal‐stable‐global causes become depressed when confronted with negative life events This proposition was tested in a field and a laboratory study in settings with an interpersonal, socially relevant character In the field study, the attributional style of 86 female college students was investigated before Christmas, and their mood was recorded both before and after Christmas The laboratory study recorded the mood of 46 female students before and after either success or failure In both studies changes m depressive mood were predicted by the Attribution X Outcome interaction The direction and form of the interaction were in line with the diathesis‐stress model In the field study, but not the laboratory study, outcome was a significant predictor of changes m depressive mood