title: Perceived controllability of life-events and willingness to prescribe psychotropic drugs.
abstract: To test an attributional model of psychotropic drug prescription, medical students rated the controllability of life-events along with prescription probability. As predicted, students were more willing to prescribe for more uncontrollable events. This relationship could not be explained by differences in the amount of readjustment required by events.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs