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Attributional style and depression
Author(s) -
Hargreaves Isabel R.
Publication year - 1985
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.2044-8260.1985.tb01315.x
Subject(s) - learned helplessness , psychology , attribution , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , style (visual arts) , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , history , archaeology , economics , macroeconomics
The study aimed to test the prediction, arising out of Abramson et al. 's (1978) reformulated learned helplessness model of depression, that depressed individuals have significantly different attributions about the causes of events from non‐depressed individuals. No support was found for this hypothesis when comparing a depressed psychiatric sample with a matched normal group. Several hypotheses are offered to account for the failure to agree with previous studies.