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Catastrophizing and Untimely Death
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Participants in the Terman Life-Cycle Study completed open-ended questionnaires in 1936 and 1940, and these responses were blindly scored for explanatory style by content analysis. Catastrophizing (attributing bad events to global causes) predicted mortality as of 1991, especially among males, and predicted accidental or violent deaths especially well. These results are the first to show that a dimension of explanatory style is a risk factor for mortality in a large sample of initially healthy individuals, and they imply that one of the mechanisms linking explanatory style and death involves lifestyle.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Peterson, C., Seligman, M. E. P., Yurko, K. H., Martin, L. R., & Friedman, H. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Children's Hospital of Michigan (US)
- La Sierra University (US)
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-130
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2070571146
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 7.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- catastrophizing, attributional style, mortality, untimely death, accidental death, violent death, lifestyle, sex differences
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