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SUBMITTER: Liu MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5487417 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Michelle T MT Wang Fei F Peng Kaiping K
Frontiers in psychology 20170628
Numerous studies have shown that depression-prone people are characterized by a chronic style of attributing failures to internal, stable, and global causes, sometimes labeled as the "depressive attributional style." Much less is known, however, about how social-cultural factors such as religious beliefs might modulate these processes. In the current study, we hypothesized that Buddhism's view of ultimate internal controllability plays a buffering role against the depressive attributional style ...[more]