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Title: | Control Cognitions and Causal Attributions as Predictors of Fatigue Severity in a Community Sample | Contributor(s): | Wells, Lesley (author); Thorsteinsson, Einar B (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2012 | DOI: | 10.1080/00224545.2011.586655 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11936 | 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. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Journal of Social Psychology, 152(2), p. 185-198 | Publisher: | Psychology Press | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1940-1183 0022-4545 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 420403 Psychosocial aspects of childbirth and perinatal mental health 520199 Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 929999 Health not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200201 Determinants of health | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Psychology |
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