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Original Articles

Do repressors differ on indirect and direct measures of attributional style?

Pages 831-835 | Published online: 09 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

We investigated whether individuals who possess a repressive coping style (repressors) differ in their attributional style depending on how it was assessed. Whereas repressors rated hypothetical negative events to be less likely to be due to internal causes compared to nonrepressors on a direct measure, the opposite pattern was found on an indirect measure, with repressors rating hypothetical negative events to be significantly more likely to be due to internal causes. It is argued that exclusive reliance on direct self-report methods is not a satisfactory way of eliciting information from repressors. Furthermore, we suggest that repressors may have a similar underlying attributional style to depressed individuals, although this may be expressed differently.

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