Attributional Style and Life Events: A Diathesis-Stress Theory of Alcohol Consumption

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 949-955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin I. Goldstein ◽  
Gregory M. Buchanan ◽  
John R. Z. Abela ◽  
Martin E. P. Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Stress Model ◽  
Stress Theory ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire ◽  
Diathesis Stress Model

The role of a cognitive diathesis-stress model in predicting changes in alcohol consumption was examined. This study evaluated the interaction of attributional style with negative life events in predicting changes in beer, wine, spirits, and overall alcohol consumption. 93 undergraduate participants completed the Khavari Alcohol Test, Negative Life Events Questionnaire, and Attributional Style Questionnaire. The interaction of attributional style with negative life events predicted increases in spirits consumption between Time 1 and Time 2.

Role of aggression, rejection, and attributions in the prediction of depression in children

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Panak ◽  
Judy Garber
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Peer Rejection ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Stress Model ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Predictive Relations ◽  
Diathesis Stress Model

AbstractConcurrent and predictive relations among aggression, peer rejection, and self-reported depressive symptoms were examined in 521 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children at three time points over 1 year. Increases in aggression were significantly associated with increases in depression, and this relation was mediated, in part, through increases in peer rejection. The relation between peer-reported rejection and depression was mediated by perceived rejection. Finally, we found support for the cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in children. Controlling for initial levels of depression and peer rejection, the interaction between stress (increases in peer rejection) and a depressogenic attributional style contributed significantly to the prediction of self-reported depressive symptoms 1 year later.

scholarly journals Loneliness and negative life events as predictors of hopelessness and suicidal behaviors in hispanics: evidence for a diathesis-stress model

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (12) ◽  
pp. 1242-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Chang ◽  
Lawrence J. Sanna ◽  
Jameson K. Hirsch ◽  
Elizabeth L. Jeglic
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Stress Model ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
Diathesis Stress Model

AN INTERACTIONAL APPROACH TO ATTRIBUTIONAL DIMENSIONS IN DYSPHORIA

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet E. Eschen ◽  
David S. Glenwick
Keyword(s):  
Attributional Style ◽  
The Self ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire ◽  
Standard Manner ◽  
Stability Dimension ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Relationship

To investigate the possible contributions to dysphoria of interactions among attributional dimensions, 105 freshmen and sophomores were administered the Attributional Style Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory. Analyses examined the relationship to dysphoria of (a) the traditional composite score; (b) multiple regression analyses including interactions among the various dimensions; and (c) indices of behavioral self-blame, characterological self-blame, and external blame. The results provided modest support for the specific hypothesized interactional model and, to a large extent, appeared to support the validity of the standard manner in which dysphoric attributional style is viewed. Refinements of the traditional model are suggested, involving the self-blame construct, the possible role of the stability dimension, and the relationship between controllability and positive event attributions.

Worldviews and Individual Vulnerability to Suicide: The Role of Social Axioms

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 602-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben C. P. Lam ◽  
Michael Harris Bond ◽  
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen ◽  
Wesley C. H. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Social Axioms ◽  
Individual Vulnerability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Cynicism

Research investigating the role of generalized beliefs about the world or worldviews is relatively scarce in the suicide literature. Two studies, using Hong Kong Chinese samples, examined how worldviews, as assessed by the Social Axioms Survey (SAS), were linked with individual vulnerability to suicide. In Study 1, we investigated the relationships of social axioms with various suicide indicators in cognitive, emotional and interpersonal domains, viz., suicidal ideation, negative self–esteem, psychache, burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Results from canonical correlation analysis showed that beliefs along the axiom dimensions of social cynicism, reward for application, and social complexity were linked to these suicide indicators. In Study 2, we tested the interplay of worldviews and personality traits in the prediction of suicidal thoughts. Hierarchical regression results demonstrated the predictive power of social axioms over and above that provided by the Big Five personality dimensions. Moreover, a significant interaction was observed between belief in reward for application and negative life events in predicting suicidal ideation, showing that reward for application buffered the effect of negative life events on suicidal ideation. Based on these results, we discussed the significance of worldviews as a consideration in suicide research and their implications for clinical assessment and intervention. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Negative Life Events and Antenatal Depression among Pregnant Women in Rural China: The Role of Negative Automatic Thoughts

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e0167597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Xiaohua Wang ◽  
Fangnan Liu ◽  
Xiaoning Jiang ◽  
Yun Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Antenatal Depression ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts

CULTURE MODERATES THE SELF-SERVING BIAS: ETIC AND EMIC FEATURES OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS IN INDIA AND IN CANADA

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. C. Higgins ◽  
Gira Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Causal Attributions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Attributional Style Questionnaire ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Individualistic Culture

This study tested the hypothesis that individuals from a collectivist culture explain life events using more contextual causes than do those from an individualistic culture. Undergraduates' causal attributions about positive and negative life events were assessed in India (n = 195) and Canada (n = 162) using a revised Attributional Style Questionnaire. Analyses revealed the India participants generated more contextual causes for events, but also had a stronger self-serving bias than did the Canada participants. Further, each cultural group viewed achievement events as more controllable than interpersonal events, but the Canada sample differentiated between achievement and interpersonal events more strongly than did the India sample. The findings demonstrate that causal explanations for life events in the two cultures possess both etic (i.e., universal) and emic (i.e., culture-specific) features.

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