The attributional Style Questionnaire

@article{Peterson2005TheAS,
  title={The attributional Style Questionnaire},
  author={Christopher Peterson and Amy Semmel and Carl L. von Baeyer and Lyn Y. Abramson and Gerald I. Metalsky and M. Seligman},
  journal={Cognitive Therapy and Research},
  year={2005},
  volume={6},
  pages={287-299}
}
Of current interest are the causal attributions offered by depressives for the good and bad events in their lives. One important attributional account of depression is the reformulated learned helplessness model, which proposes that depressive symptoms are associated with an attributional style in which uncontrollable bad events are attributed to internal (versus external), stable (versus unstable), and global (versus specific) causes. We describe the Attributional Style Questionnaire, which… 
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