Attributions for negative life events and depression: the role of perceived control.

摘要: Although perceptions of control occupied a central role in the development learned helplessness theory, recent research has not considered controllability judgments when relating attributions to depression. Supporting importance this construct, discussed article found evidence that interact with other predicting Specifically, prospective study stress and well-being adolescence, internal, stable, global for negative events attributed uncontrollable causes were be positively related increases depression (as predicted by reformulated theory), but internal controllable inversely The discussion considers implications findings understanding nature relation between naturally occurring life