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Dependency, self‐criticism and depressive attributional style
Author(s) -
Brewin Chris R.,
Furnham Adrian
Publication year - 1987
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.2044-8260.1987.tb01350.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , self criticism , dependency (uml) , criticism , depressive symptoms , style (visual arts) , depression (economics) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , cognition , psychiatry , art , literature , macroeconomics , systems engineering , archaeology , engineering , economics , history
It has been proposed that dependency and self‐criticism are independent forms of depressive experience. This study was designed to investigate whether one or both experiences are associated with a depressive attributional style. Internal and global attributions for hypothetical negative outcomes were found to be associated with both dependency and self‐criticism, but neither of these aspects of depression were related to attributions for positive outcomes.