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What attribution style is likely present in a student who remains depressed after a bad grade?

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Answer: A. Stable, global

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A stable attributional style views negative events as permanent and unchanging across future situations. A global attribution style assumes that failure in one area implies complete failure across all life domains. Combining stable and global attributions fosters learned helplessness and contributes directly to prolonged depressive states. Attribution theory examines how individuals explain the causes behind positive and negative life events. Explanatory styles significantly influence emotional well-being, resilience, and general psychological adjustment over time. Depression is frequently sustained by maladaptive cognitive patterns involving internal, stable, and global causal attributions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy actively challenges maladaptive attributional styles to help patients overcome chronic depression. Students who adopt pessimistic explanatory styles often struggle to recover academic confidence after experiencing setbacks. Encouraging optimistic reframing promotes better mental health outcomes in educational and clinical settings alike. An unstable and specific attribution views failure as temporary and limited to a single isolated context. External and global attributions blame outside circumstances while still generalizing the negative impact broadly. External and specific attributions attribute setbacks to temporary outside factors without causing generalized personal despair.

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Psychology
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Psychology
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