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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Psychological Distress and its Relation to Attributional Styles and Coping Strategies among Adolescents


Journal of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology
July2010, Vol.36, No.2, 231-238.

Psychological Distress and its Relation to Attributional Styles and Coping Strategies among Adolescents

Fareeda Shaheen and Md. Shamim Alam
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Abstract
Psychological distress and its relation to attributional styles and coping strategies were studied in a sample of 300 (150 male and 150 female) eleventh grade students. It was found that composite attribution for positive events and its three dimensions (i.e. internal-external, stable-unstable and global- specific) were negatively correlated with psychological distress and composite attribution for negative events and its three dimensions (i.e. internal-external, stable-unstable and global-specific) were positively correlated with psychological distress. It was also found that problem focused coping strategies negatively related to psychological distress and avoidance coping positively related to psychological distress. Further more, it was found that Science students scored higher on composite negative and its two dimension i.e. stable-unstable and global-specific negative. It was also found that Science students used more problem focused coping while Arts students used more avoidance coping, The result also revealed that Arts students experience more psychological distress as compared to Science students.







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