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Article: Psychological distress, causal attributions, and coping.
- Article from:
- New Zealand Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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The potential differing effects of causal attributions on both psychological distress and coping in response to a hypothetical exam failure were investigated. A 59 item questionnaire was distributed to 99 male and 90 female students from the University of Canterbury. The questionnaire measured anticipated psychological distress and the probable causes for a hypothetical exam failure using attributional dimensions pertaining to locus of causality, controllability, and stability. Furthermore, the questionnaire listed the coping strategies from the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist (Vitaliano, et al., 1985). The respondents rated the likelihood a strategy would be utilised if ...