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Early Adolescent Depressive Mood: Direct and Indirect Effects of Attributional Styles and Coping

Auteur: Siu Mui Chan

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 3/2012

Abstract

The present study used a cross-sectional survey design to examine how adolescent depressive mood was related to attributional styles and coping strategies with a sample of 326 youths (aged 8–14 years). With the cutting point adopted in the West, 20.9% of the current sample reported depressive symptoms. Regression analysis results show that, with the asymptomatic group, seeking social support strategy mediated the effects of positive-global and positive-stable attribution, and internalization strategy mediated the effects of negative-global attribution on depression mood. In the dysphoric adolescents, attributing positive events to global factors and seeking social support strategy predicted depressive mood in the negative direction whereas attributing negative events to global factors, problem solving strategy and internalization strategy, the positive direction. The current study confirmed that both attributional styles and coping strategies were significant predictors of depressive mood but different dimensions of attribution related to depressive symptoms in different magnitude.

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Titel: Early Adolescent Depressive Mood: Direct and Indirect Effects of Attributional Styles and Coping
Auteur: Siu Mui Chan
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 3/2012
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0275-9

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