A Conceptual Scheme for Assessing Evenhandedness and (Counter) Self-Serving Attributional Biases in Relation to Depression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13660811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leo Cohen (Free University Hospital, corresponding author), Jan Van Den Bout (Utrecht University) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 899-904 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1994.75.2.899 |
| PMID | 7862801 |
| OpenAlex | W2061708305 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Various hypotheses have been proposed concerning the attributional styles of depressive and nondepressive persons. Some hypotheses are compatible with others; some are mutually exclusive. In this paper we present a scheme for organizing these hypotheses. A method is offered for deciding which hypothesis best fits data from samples which are heterogeneous with regard to extent of depression. The concepts reviewed include "self-serving bias," "counter-self-serving bias," "evenhandedness," "depressive lower self-enhancement," "counter-defensive attribution," the "Abramson, et al. hypothesis" that depressed persons attribute events with bad outcomes more to internal, stable, and global causes than do nondepressed persons, and the "Seligman, et al. hypothesis" that depressed persons attribute events of good outcome less to these causes than do nondepressed persons
Attribution · Cognitive psychology · Data mining · Depression (economics · Relation (database · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Computer Science · Psychological Treatments and Assessments · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Social competence and depression
Depressive attributional style.
The attributional Style Questionnaire
Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students
Causal explanations as a risk factor for depression
Learned helplessness in humans
Depression, self-esteem, and the absence of self-protective attributional biases
Self-serving biases in the attribution process
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |