Journal article
Depression, General Distress, and Causal Attributions Among University Students
Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), v 95(2)
May 1986
PMID: 3711444
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Abstract
The present study illustrates the difficulty, due to low levels of specificity and discriminant validity, in testing theories of depression when employing self-report measures with a university student sample. Results obtained from 134 undergraduate student subjects found the Beck Depression Inventory to be highly correlated with measures of state and trait anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, and unassertiveness, although the assertiveness measure did demonstrate some discriminant validity according to a principal-components analysis. Further, a canonical correlation analysis revealed all five measures of distress to be significantly related to causal attributions concerning both positive and negative events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire.
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- Title
- Depression, General Distress, and Causal Attributions Among University Students
- Creators
- Arthur M Nezu - Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityChristine M Nezu - Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityVictor A Nezu - State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Publication Details
- Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), v 95(2)
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1986C307600012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0022884687
- Other Identifier
- 991014878019204721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, Clinical
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary