+1 862 207 3288 Everyday, people encounter events and situations that require an explanation. The attempt to attribute what factors gave rise to what outcome is central to explaining events, and to social cognition in general, and the extreme variation in the way people make attributions subsequently results in there being extreme differences within the individual. Depression is a state that could be caused by the way in which attributions are made by an individual and how explanations are made concerning life events and circumstances.
Seligman (1974) encompassed attributions and their relationship with depression within his theory of learned helplessness….(short extract)
