Dependency, self-criticism and depressive attributional style.
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.
Brewin
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MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
Furnham
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D000328:Adult; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006380:Helplessness, Learned / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept