PSYC 2530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Explanatory Style

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2530
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

Pessimisic explanatory style puts risk factors of depression on both kids and adults: they feel sadder for longer periods and deeper sadness when things of this sort happen to them, leads to depression ater negaive events. Those with opimisic explanatory style bounce back from these negaive setbacks a lot faster. Strategies researchers use to demonstrate that a pessimisic explanatory style causes depression: 2. Track both explanatory styles and depressive symptoms over ime and see how they relate to each other page 292: 3. Design a treatment that changes explanatory style and see if this leads to changes in depression page 292 another kind of treatment in therapy: page 292, explanatory style and social behaviour. People who make atribuions for their spouses behaviour feel beter about their marriages: leads to beter outcome and saisfacion with marriage, blame their interpersonal failures on lack of efort or poor strategies.