Attributions for Relatives' Behavior and Perceived Criticism: Studies With Community Participants and Patients With Anxiety Disorders

Abstract

The relationship between perceived criticism from one’s relative and attributions about that relative’s behavior was examined in two studies. In Study 1, 50 community couples volunteered to participate in a study of marital interaction. Participants rated their interaction-specific perceived criticism after a 10-min problem-solving interaction and their attributions for their spouses’ behavior during a review of the videotaped interaction. In Study 2, 70 outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 41) or panic disorder with agoraphobia (n = 29) completed a measure of global perceived criticism in their relationship with their spouse or other family member and on another occasion participated in a 10-min problem-solving interaction with that relative. Using interaction transcripts, coders extracted and coded attributions from patients’ speech and, using the videotapes themselves, rated relatives’ observable criticism. In both studies higher scores on negative attributions were related to higher perceived criticism ratings. In Study 2, negative attributions contributed to the prediction of perceived criticism above and beyond the contribution of observed criticism. These findings suggest that targeting attributions about perceived criticism may be fruitful in reducing the negative impact of perceived criticism on treatment outcome for a variety of psychiatric disorders.

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