Depressive Symptoms and Attributional Style in Children

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Friedlander ◽  
John A. Traylor ◽  
Daniel S. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style

Explanatory Style and Academic Performance among College Students Beginning a Major Course of Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 861-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary C. LaForge ◽  
Stephen Cantrell
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Explanatory Style ◽  
Grade Point Averages ◽  
Cognitive Variable ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Pessimistic Explanatory Style

Explanatory style, a cognitive variable, reflects how people typically explain the causes of bad events involving themselves. Explanatory style emerged from the attributional reformulation of the learned helplessness and depression model as a way of explaining individual differences in response to uncontrollability. A central prediction of the reformulation is that people with habitual explanatory tendencies differ, and individuals with a pessimistic explanatory style will be more likely to exhibit depressive symptoms following bad events than individuals with an optimistic explanatory style. 116 upper-level undergraduates beginning a degree program at this university completed the Attributional Style Questionnaire. Scores were correlated with students' cumulative grade point averages and their total points earned in Consumer Behavior, the first course required in the Marketing major. Students with pessimistic explanatory style scores outperformed colleagues with optimistic explanatory style scores. Implications of these findings and possible explanations for why explanatory style did not correlate in the theoretically predicted way with academic achievement are considered.

scholarly journals Changes in Self-Perceptions in Children With ADHD: A Longitudinal Study of Depressive Symptoms and Attributional Style

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia D. McQuade ◽  
Betsy Hoza ◽  
Dianna Murray-Close ◽  
Daniel A. Waschbusch ◽  
Julie S. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Self Perceptions

Humour's role in the relation between attributional style and dysphoria

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela S. Hugelshofer ◽  
Paul Kwon ◽  
Robert C. Reff ◽  
Megan L. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Negative Attributional Style

The present study empirically investigated the role of adaptive and maladaptive components of humour in the relation between attributional style and dysphoria. Four hundred eighteen students (134 male, 282 female; 2 respondents did not indicate gender) completed questionnaires measuring attributional style, humour styles and depressive symptoms. Among men and women, higher levels of affiliative and self‐enhancing humour, and lower levels of self‐defeating humour, were each associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Additionally, higher levels of affiliative humour provided a buffer against the deleterious effects of a negative attributional style in men, but not women. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Children’s Self-blame Appraisals about their Mothers’ Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Internalizing Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrystyna D Kouros
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Maternal Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Preventive Interventions ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Target Children ◽  
Negative Attributional Style ◽  
Child Age

Maternal depressive symptoms are a robust predictor of children’s risk for internalizing symptoms; yet not all children are negatively affected by exposure to their mothers’ symptoms. The present study tested children's self-blame appraisals as a moderator of the association between maternal depressive symptoms and children’s internalizing symptoms, controlling for children’s negative attributional style. We hypothesized that the relation between maternal depressive symptoms and children’s internalizing symptoms would be stronger for children who blamed themselves more for their mothers’ symptoms. Participants were 129 mother-child dyads (M child age = 13.63, SD = 2.2; 52.7% female; 38.8% White, 31% African American, 22.5% Latinx/Hispanic) recruited from the community. Results indicated that maternal depressive symptoms were associated with higher levels of children’s internalizing symptoms for children who reported higher, but not lower, levels of self-blame appraisals. Results were consistent using mothers’ or children’s reports of their own and each other’s symptoms. The findings highlight the importance of assessing children’s appraisals about their mothers’ depressive symptoms, and suggest that preventive interventions should target children who endorse higher levels of self-blame appraisals. Further, children’s self-blame appraisals about mothers’ depressive symptoms should be considered as a target of treatment for child internalizing disorders.

scholarly journals Attributional Style and Depression in Multiple Sclerosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gray A. Vargas ◽  
Peter A. Arnett
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
General Population ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Negative Events ◽  
Daily Stressors ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire

Several etiologic theories have been proposed to explain depression in the general population. Studying these models and modifying them for use in the multiple sclerosis (MS) population may allow us to better understand depression in MS. According to the reformulated learned helplessness (LH) theory, individuals who attribute negative events to internal, stable, and global causes are more vulnerable to depression. This study differentiated attributional style that was or was not related to MS in 52 patients with MS to test the LH theory in this population and to determine possible differences between illness-related and non-illness-related attributions. Patients were administered measures of attributional style, daily stressors, disability, and depressive symptoms. Participants were more likely to list non-MS-related than MS-related causes of negative events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), and more-disabled participants listed significantly more MS-related causes than did less-disabled individuals. Non-MS-related attributional style correlated with stress and depressive symptoms, but MS-related attributional style did not correlate with disability or depressive symptoms. Stress mediated the effect of non-MS-related attributional style on depressive symptoms. These results suggest that, although attributional style appears to be an important construct in MS, it does not seem to be related directly to depressive symptoms; rather, it is related to more perceived stress, which in turn is related to increased depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals A Longitudinal Examination of the Hopelessness Theory of Depression in People Who Have Multiple Sclerosis

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. I. Kneebone ◽  
S. Guerrier ◽  
E. Dunmore ◽  
E. Jones ◽  
C. Fife-Schaw
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Study Phase ◽  
Hopelessness Theory ◽  
Hopelessness Theory Of Depression ◽  
Negative Attributional Style

Purpose. Hopelessness theory predicts that negative attributional style will interact with negative life events over time to predict depression. The intention of this study was to test this in a population who are at greater risk of negative life events, people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).Method. Data, including measures of attributional style, negative life events, and depressive symptoms, were collected via postal survey in 3 phases, each one a year apart.Results. Responses were received from over 380 participants at each study phase. Negative attributional style was consistently able to predict future depressive symptoms at low to moderate levels of association; however, this ability was not sustained when depressive symptoms at Phase 1 were controlled for. No substantial evidence to support the hypothesised interaction of negative attributional style and negative life events was found.Conclusions. Findings were not supportive of the causal interaction proposed by the hopelessness theory of depression. Further work considering other time frames, using methods to prime attributional style before assessment and specifically assessing the hopelessness subtype of depression, may prove to be more fruitful. Intervention directly to address attributional style should also be considered.

Bulimic symptoms and the development of depressive symptoms: The moderating role of attributional style

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 651-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Joiner ◽  
Gerald I. Metalsky ◽  
Stephen A. Wonderlich
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms ◽  
Moderating Role

scholarly journals PENGARUH KELEKATAN AYAH TERHADAP GEJALA DEPRESI REMAJA PEREMPUAN DI KOTA BANDUNG

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Jannah Yuniar ◽  
Indri Utami Sumaryanti
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Regression Test

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of father-daughter attachment towards adolescent depressive symptoms in Bandung. The sampling technique in this study was purposive sampling with a questionnaire data collection method. The instruments used in this study were the Inventory of Parent And Peer Attachment (IPPA) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The sample in this study were 64 teenage girls in Bandung aged 15-24 years who have experienced three symptoms of depression for at least 2 weeks. The simple linear regression test results show that the higher the father attachment, the lower the depressive symptoms of female adolescents in Bandung. However, the magnitude of this influence is only 13.9%. For future researchers who are interested in investigating further about this variable, it is suggested to include control variables that can contribute to depressive symptoms, such as self-esteem, self-concept, self-efficacy, attributional style, and social support.

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