Causal Attributions of Depression: Reliability of the “Causal Dimension Scale” in Research on Clinical Inference
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 56 (2) , 415-418
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1985.56.2.415
Abstract
This article presents estimates of internal consistency for the Causal Dimension Scale, recently developed to measure causal attributions in terms of attributions of locus, stability, and controllability of the causes. In a study of the clinical inference of depression, alpha coefficients ranging from .68 to .96 were noted for the whole test and the subscales. The scale may prove helpful in the study of causal attributions about the mental health of others.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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