Abstract
A number of investigators have documented the existence of a depressive attributional pattern. Compared to nondepressives, individuals with depressive symptoms attribute negative outcomes to internal, stable, and global factors and tend to attribute positive outcomes to external and/or unstable factors. In this study we experimentally investigated the causal direction of the relationship between depressive symptoms and attributional patterns by using the Velten technique to induce a transient depressive mood state in naturally nondepressed college students. Although students became depressed in mood following the experimental manipulation, they still showed a robust nondepressive attributional style similar to the style shown by a neutral control group of naturally nondepressed students. The implications of these results for attributional accounts of depression were discussed.
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