Attribution style strengths & Limitations and recent research Group A by joan ruddock

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2018-03-15 15:20:25 UTC

strengths
< recent meta-analysis

Social Identity Reduces Depression by Fostering Positive Attributions

2018-03-15 15:21:04 UTC

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550614543309

Social identities are generally associated with better health and in particular lower levels of depression. However, there has been limited investigation of why social identities protect against depression. The current research suggests that social identities reduce depression in part because they attenuate the depressive attribution style (internal, stable, and global; e.g., “I failed because I’m stupid”). These relationships are first investigated in a survey (Study 1, N = 139) and then followed up in an experiment that manipulates social identity salience (Study 2, N = 88). In both cases, people with stronger social identities were less likely to attribute negative events to internal, stable, or global causes and subsequently reported lower levels of depression. These studies thus indicate that social identities can protect and enhance mental health by facilitating positive interpretations of stress and failure. Implications for clinical theory and practice are discussed.

Daily stress and coping styles in adolescent hopelessness depression: Moderating effects of gender

2018-03-15 15:23:26 UTC

Highlights
-Daily stress and coping styles contribute to adolescent's hopelessness depression.
-Gender moderates the relation of stress and coping with hopelessness depression.
-Gender moderation of daily stress suggests an inoculation effect in girls.
-Avoidant coping predicts hopelessness depression disregarding gender.
-Girls would benefit from being more action-prone whereas boys more reflection-prone.

The hopelessness depression (HD) theory assumes a number of contributing factors to the development of hopelessness expectations and HD symptoms. However, little research has been conducted in order to examine gender differences in the relationship of these factors with HD. This study explored the relationship of daily stress and coping styles with HD in adolescents and analysed the moderating effects of gender. Secondary students (N = 480; aged 13–17) completed the Hopelessness Scale, the Hopelessness Depression Symptoms Questionnaire, the Problem Questionnaire and the Coping Across Situations Questionnaire. Using hierarchical regression analyses, results showed a moderating effect of gender on the relationship between daily stress and hopelessness expectations, which revealed a significant effect for boys despite the fact that girls experienced more daily stress than boys. Regarding coping styles, results showed that the avoidant coping style predicted HD independently of gender and, interestingly, a moderating effect of gender for the active and internal coping styles. While the active coping style showed a protective effect for HD symptoms in girls, the internal coping style played an analogous role in boys, suggesting that girls would benefit from being more action-prone and boys from being more reflection-prone in order to prevent HD.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916301726

STRENGTHS;
Not many studies done, so bringing important information.

Self Esteem

2018-03-15 15:27:39 UTC

Two studies evaluate the role of self-esteem in the depressive attributional style. In the first study, college students completed four measures of depression, four measures of self-esteem, and the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Regression analyses revealed that across measures, self-esteem was a better predictor of attributional style for negative events than was depression. In study two, psychiatric inpatients completed a measure of self-esteem, a measure of depression, and the ASQ. In this clinical sample, self-esteem and depression were highly correlated and both predicted ASQ scores. But when variation in depth of depression and social desirability were removed statistically from the association between self-esteem and attributions for negative outcomes, there remained a significant association between self-esteem and internal, stable, and global attributions for negative outcomes. Controlling for the variation in self-esteem eliminated the relation between depression and depressive attributional style. These findings demonstrate the importance of self-esteem in depressive attributional style in both normal and clinical populations, as well as potential differences in the relations among self-esteem, depression, and attributional style in clinical versus normal samples.

(Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3437382 )

2018-03-21 10:54:43 UTC

Aleesha, Zahrah & Liam
Perceived psychological control and anxiety in early adolescents.
Research indicates that perceived parental control is a risk factor for anxiety in youth, but mechanisms underlying this connection remain under-examined. This study examined whether hopeless attributional style mediates this relationship, as well as whether this relationship is moderated by gender, in early adolescents (N = 116, ages 10–14). We assessed two hypotheses: (1) that hopeless attributional style would mediate the relationship between perceived maternal psychological control and antxiety symptoms across 1 year, and (2) that this pathway would be stronger for girls than for boys.
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