The attributional style of adults studied by the experimental induction of negative mood
Journal Title: Journal of Psychological and Educational Research - Year 2011, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
The work is aligned to relatively recent preoccupations regarding the involvement of causal attributions in the evolution of depression. We investigate the impact of negative mood experimentally inducted in the modification of psychopathological reactivity, of self esteem and the causal attributions. The steps proposed shall investigate the status of the causal explanations as a vulnerability factor in psychopathological reactivity and the extent to which these are causal factors in psychopathology or on the contrary, they are just a consequence. The lot was formed out of 345 participants, 82 participants were evaluated both in pre and post test. The induction of depressive mood surprises the modifications between T1 and T2 of the way in which the participants make causal attributions in the case of negative scenarios. In the next stage there are presented comparisons between psychiatric depressive persons, non-psychiatric depressive persons with experimentally inducted depression and non depressive persons according to the socio-cognitive variables. The study claims the modification of negative causal attributions according to the symptom model and vulnerability. The experimental situation acted as a trigger of the disadaptive attributional style, which might indicate the activation of some answer modalities to confirm the actual mood of the participants.
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Marian Mihai
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