The attributional Style Questionnaire

Peterson, Christopher; Semmel, Amy; Baeyer, Carl L. von; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Metalsky, Gerald I.; Seligman, Martin E. P.

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“…For example, future research should examine possible relations between the CES and other measures of maladaptive cognitive processing styles in response to stressful life events, such as the attributional style questionnaire (ASQ) (Peterson et al, 1982). As pointed out by Peterson and Seligman (1984) the notion of attribution is a hypothetical construct that is not exhaustively defined or explained by a single underlying operation.…”

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The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

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2006

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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We introduce a new scale that measures how central an event is to a person's identity and life story. For the most stressful or traumatic event in a person's life, the full 20-item Centrality of Event Scale (CES) and the short 7-item scale are reliable (a's of .94 and .88, respectively) in a sample of 707 undergraduates. The scale correlates .38 with PTSD symptom severity and .23 with depression. The present findings are discussed in relation to previous work on individual differences related to PTSD symptoms. Possible connections between the CES and measures of maladaptive attributions and rumination are considered along with suggestions for future research. r

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The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

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2006

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…We calculated a composite score for physician perceived control [ICS+ = InternalDoctor + Control-Doctor + Stable for positive outcomes] following procedures adopted in previous studies (e.g., Peterson et al, 1982;Weiner, 1995) in order to test the hypotheses.…”

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"Trust Me...": Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Perceived Physician Empathy.

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. attribution questionnaire prior to a structured patient consultation exercise, during which patients and assessors rated physician empathy. The exercise was audiotaped, transcribed and content analyzed for verbal behaviors. Support was found for the hypotheses, however, patients but not medical assessors associated empathy with reassurance and provision of medical information. Permanent repository link: Predicting empathy judgments 2Empathy is particularly important for medical practitioners. Physician empathy has been shown to predict patient trust, compliance with clinical decisions, and satisfaction with medical services (Barnett, Howard, King & Dino, 1981;Becker & Maiman, 1975;Newton et al. 2000). Yet surprisingly little is known about the factors that lead patients to judge physician empathy. This research set out to address two related research questions: a) how can we explain and predict individual differences in judged physician empathy, and b) what are the behavioral cues that lead patients to judge their physician as empathic? We tested a socio-cognitive model of judged empathy among 100 physicians undertaking standardized patient consultations as part of a structured selection process. Proximal and Distal Predictors of Perceived EmpathyEmpathy has been defined in many ways, reflecting a multitude of theoretical and empirical perspectives (cf. Preston & de Waal, 2002). It is most often conceptualized in one of two ways: (1) as a heightened sensitivity to another"s emotional state that results in a shared emotional response and feelings of sympathy, or (2) as the ability to decode a target person"s thoughts and feelings and respond accordingly (Marangoni, Ickes, Garcia & Teng, 1995). Both of these treat empathy as a predominantly intra-psychic phenomenonsomething experienced (or felt) by the person who is empathizing, rather than something perceived by someone who is being empathized with (Hakansson & Montgomery, 2003). In patient consultations, however, it is arguably whether patients judge their physician to demonstrate empathy that is important (Newton et al., 2000): an interpersonal perspective that is reflected in many medical definitions of empathy. For example, More (1996) Predicting empathy judgments 3 suggests that empathy is "… a form of relational knowledge. Its manifestation is not "concern" but "presence." The empathetic physician is neither objective nor subjective, Communication Behavior and EmpathyThe nature of physician-patient interactions influences both positive clinical outcomes and less positive outcomes such as lawsuits for malpractice (Di Blazi, Harkness, Predicting empathy judgments 4Ernst, Georgiou & Kleijnen, 2001;Levinson & Chaumeton, 1999; Mercer, McConnachie, Maxwell, Heaney & Watt, 2005;Vincent, Young & Phillips, 1994). Yet, despite a considerable body of research investigating physician-patient communication (e.g., BenSira, 1980; Buller & Buller, 19...

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“…A problem in their approach is the failure to include the attributional dimension of controllability. However, they are simply 52 following Marlatt's model of the AVE in this respect (Marlatt, 1985b Style Questionnaire (Peterson et al, 1982) used extensively in work on the attributional underpinning's of depression (Abramson et al, 1989). As noted earlier, they measured affect using the Beck Depression Inventory and a difficulty here is that the BDI is not a measure of emotion or affect, but rather, a measure of depression.…”

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