caa a22 4500 467897417 CHVBK 20180406152807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10608-006-9005-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10608-006-9005-1 Emerging from the CAVE: Attributional Style and the Narrative Study of Identity in Midlife Adults [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Adler, Emily C. Kissel, Dan McAdams] It has been widely documented that individuals who explain negative life events with a depressogenic attributional style (stable, global attributions) tend to have increased rates of depression and other poor outcomes (e.g., Sweeny, Anderson, & Bailey, 1986). The Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanations (CAVE) is a method of assessing attributional style in spontaneously-generated causal attributions appearing in accounts of real events (Peterson, Schulman, Castellon, & Seligman, 1992). Seventy life story interviews obtained from a diverse community sample of midlife adults were coded for attributional style with the CAVE technique and also for the theme of contamination (scenes in which good events turn to bad outcomes, McAdams, Reynolds, Lewis, Patten, & Bowman, 2001). While depressogenic attributional style and contamination sequences were unrelated to each other, both were shown to independently predict self-reported depression and low life satisfaction. In addition, while the observed relationships between depressogenic attributional style and these self-report variables were no longer significant after controlling for neuroticism, a similar pattern was not observed for contamination sequences. This study forges possible connections between cognitive theories of depression and the narrative study of adult identity. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 attributional style nationallicence CAVE nationallicence contamination sequences nationallicence narrative nationallicence Adler Jonathan Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA aut Kissel Emily C. Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA aut McAdams Dan Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA aut Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/1(2006-02-01), 39-51 0147-5916 30:1<39 2006 30 10608 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9005-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9005-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adler Jonathan Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kissel Emily C. Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McAdams Dan Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/1(2006-02-01), 39-51 0147-5916 30:1<39 2006 30 10608 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer