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The "Depressive" Attributional Style Is Not That Depressive for Buddhists.


ABSTRACT: 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 and reduces its negative impacts. We administrated measures of attributional styles and psychological adjustments to a sample of Chinese Buddhists as well as a control group recruited in China. Data analyses showed that Buddhists were more likely to attribute bad outcomes to internal, stable, and global causes, but their well-being was less affected by it. Thus, these results indicate that the "depressive" attributional style is not that depressive for Buddhists, after all.

SUBMITTER: Liu MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5487417 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The "Depressive" Attributional Style Is Not That Depressive for Buddhists.

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]

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