Attributional Style in Adults

What Are Attributional and Explanatory Styles in Psychology?

Abraham, Seligman and Teasdale (1978) postulated that the way in which we attribute negative outcomes plays a role in mediating the negative ...

Attributional Style in Adults | Positive Psychology Center

Seligman, M.E.P., Abramson, L.Y., Semmel, A., and von Baeyer, C. (1979). Depressive attributional style. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 88, 242-247. Seligman, ...

Attributional Style And Socializing | www.succeedsocially.com

A person's attributional style, also known as their explanatory style, describes how they tend to, often unconsciously, explain various life events to ...

Can Attributional Style Impact Depression? - Psych Central

Attributional styles can change over time. They're often first developed in adolescence but can shift in adulthood. The first step to changing your ...

Attributional Style in Healthy Persons: Its Association with 'Theory of ...

Attributional style, especially external personal attribution bias, was found to play a pivotal role in clinical and non-clinical paranoia.

What's Your Attributional Style? - Dr Alice Boyes

“Attributional Style” is about how you explain the causes of events. Why you should care about your attributional style is that it's related to ...

Attributional Styles | SpringerLink

Attributional style, sometimes known as explanatory style, refers to the ways in which people explain the cause of events within their lives.

Optimistic Attributional Style as a Predictor of Well-Being

The construct of attributional style refers to the specific ways people explain events, both positive and negative. An optimistic attributional style (OAS) ...

Attributional Styles and Mental Health | Open Textbooks for Hong ...

Attributional style refers to the type of attributions that we tend to make for the events that occur to us.

Adult attachment styles, self-efficacy, and causal attributional style ...

The studies demonstrate the relevance of attachment styles to achievement-related self-efficacy and causal attributions. Attachment anxiety was related to low ...

Attributional Style Questionnaire - Positive Psychology Center

The ASQ is a self-report instrument that yields scores for explanatory style for bad events and for good events using three causal dimensions.

The Relationship Between Attributional Style for Negative Outcomes ...

A maladaptive attributional style constitutes a trans-diagnostic feature characterising individuals with mental disorders such as depressive ...

Optimistic attributional style as a predictor of well-being and ...

Attributional style (or explanatory style) is a specific way people explain the causes of different events in their lives. Attributional style was ...

Interactive effects of attributional styles for positive and negative ...

Attributional style is a cognitive personality variable that reflects how individuals habitually explain the events that happen in their lives. The relatively ...

What's Your Relationship Attributional Style?

Attribution patterns are an important difference between happy and unhappy relationships. When attributions turn negative it predicts troubled ...

(PDF) The Attributional Style Questionnaire - ResearchGate

(1982) is the most widely used measure of the optimist or pessimist attributional style. As an example, a university swimming team was assessed ...

Explanatory style - Wikipedia

Explanatory style is a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event, either positive or ...

AN ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR GENERAL USE

28), suggesting its appropriateness for general use with adults, including survey research. Explanatory (or attributional) style is a cognitive personality ...

Attributional Style and Locus of Control in Adults with Epilepsy

Attributional style for bad events, but not for good events, could be predicted by length of time that participants had been seizure free. Locus of control ...

When bad things happen to older people: Age differences in ...

... adults rated the internality, stability, and globality of causes for good and bad events using the Attributional Style Questionnaire. Older adults were more ...