TY - JOUR
AU1 - Shiloh, Shoshana
AU2 - Rashuk-Rosenthal, Dana
AU3 - Benyamini, Yael
AB - Two studies were conducted to investigate the cognitive organization and psychological meaning of illness causes. Using a direct similarity judgment method (Study 1), illness causes were found cognitively organized in a hierarchical configuration that could meaningfully be represented as a tree with three main branches—environmental, behavioral, and hidden causes—that further divided into subcategories. This classification of illness causes was associated with other components of the illness schema, namely, the consequences and control/cure dimensions, but not with timeline perceptions (Study 2). Perceptions of control were significantly associated with the cognitive organization of illness causal attributions. Personal relevancy was found as a moderator of illness causal attributions, influencing the relationships between attributions and other illness cognitions.
TI - Illness Causal Attributions: An Exploratory Study of Their Structure and Associations with Other Illness Cognitions and Perceptions of Control
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
DO - 10.1023/A:1015818532390
DA - 2004-10-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/illness-causal-attributions-an-exploratory-study-of-their-structure-o5E7F0zwLr
SP - 373
EP - 394
VL - 25
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -