Control Cognitions and Causal Attributions as Predictors of Fatigue Severity in a Community Sample

Title
Control Cognitions and Causal Attributions as Predictors of Fatigue Severity in a Community Sample
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Wells, Lesley
Thorsteinsson, Einar B
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1989
Email: ethorste@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ethorste
Brown, Rhonda
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Psychology Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1080/00224545.2011.586655
UNE publication id
une:12138
Abstract
Control cognitions and causal attributions of fatigue were examined in relation to Weiner's Causal Attribution theory in a community sample. Participants were 97 females and 43 males, aged 18-83 years. Weiner's dimensions of stability and uncontrollability and physical and psychosocial attributions of fatigue were related to fatigue severity. Escape-avoidance coping mediated between psychosocial causal attributions of fatigue to fatigue; whereas planful problem-solving and exercise moderated between stability cognitions to fatigue and psychosocial attributions of fatigue to fatigue, respectively. This, the cause(s) of fatigue were perceived as stable, uncontrollable, and involving physical and psychosocial factors, participants reported worse fatigue. Taken together, the results suggest that fatigue treatments may be most effective when they are tailored or matched to the belief systems of the individuals with fatigue.
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Citation
The Journal of Social Psychology, 152(2), p. 185-198
ISSN
1940-1183
0022-4545
Start page
185
End page
198

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