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Two potential limitations of research on the attributional model of depression lie in relatively untested assumptions concerning the lack of sex differences in the attributional style-depression relationship and the linearity of the relationship across levels of depression. We tested these assumptions, finding no sex differences and an essentially linear relationship. Implications of these results for research on the attributional model of depression are discussed.
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We would like to thank Deborah Ware Balogh, M. Christine Lovejoy, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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Whitley, B.E., Michael, S.T. & Tremont, G. Testing for sex differences in the relationship between attributional style and depression. Sex Roles 24, 753–758 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288210
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