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Attributions and recovery from depression: A preliminary study using cross‐lagged correlation analysis
Author(s) -
Firth Jenny,
Brewin Chris
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1982.tb00559.x
Subject(s) - globality , attribution , psychology , depression (economics) , correlation , clinical psychology , causality (physics) , validation test , developmental psychology , psychometrics , test validity , social psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , economics , market economy , globalization , macroeconomics
Cross‐lagged correlation analysis was employed to test the hypothesis that attributions for symptoms and life‐events would exercise a causal influence on the recovery of depressed patients. Patients rated their symptoms and their three most upsetting recent life‐events on the dimensions of internality, stability, globality and uncontrollability. These ratings were significantly more global and uncontrollable than those of controls. Among female depressed patients the dimensions of stability and uncontrollability appeared in addition to play a causal role in determining level of depression six weeks later.