The Relationship Between Mood Elevation and Attribution Change in the Reduction of Depression
Description:
This study investigated the relationship between the depressive attributional style described by Beck and Seligman and elevation of mood. It was proposed that mood elevation would reduce the level of depression and, in addition, would reduce the number of negative attributions. The reduction of negative attributions was assumed to be a more cognitively mediated process and was proposed to occur subsequent to mood change. These assumptions are contrary to the current cognitive theories of depres…
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Date:
August 1985
Creator:
Swenson, Carol
Partner:
UNT Libraries