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Causal Attributions and Post‐Traumatic Stress in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Joseph Steve A.,
Brewing Chris R.,
Yule William,
Williams Ruth
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb00982.x
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , shame , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , poison control , injury prevention , social psychology , medical emergency , medicine
The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between causal attributions made by adolescent survivors of the Jupiter cruise ship sinking, and post‐traumatic symptomatology in the year following disaster. Evidence is presented that more internal causal attributions for negative and uncontrollable events during the incident are associated with greater post‐traumatic stress one year later. The findings are discussed with reference to an attributional model of shame.