- Refers to the way in which individuals explain the reasons for events
- A depressed individual has a tendency to always have a particular pattern for explaining negative and positive events- Attributional Style
- This style has three dimensions:
>Locus of control (external/internal)- the extent to which a person believes success/failure is down to them. External=the belief you have no control over events, Internal= the belief that you are responsible for much of what happens to you
>Stability (stable/unstable)- whether a characteristic of an individual is permenant and will bever change (stable) or transient and can change (unstable)
>Global/specific- whether the cause of an event refers to the whole person (global) or just some particular feature/characteristic (specific)
The attributional style of a depressed individual
- Internal locus
- Stable
- Global
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