Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire—Revised: Psychometric examination.

Abstract

This study examines the psychometric properties of the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire-Revised (CASQ-R; N. J. Kaslow & S. Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991), a 24-item shortened measure derived from the 48-item CASQ designed to assess children's causal explanations for positive and negative events. The data for this study come from 1,086 children, 9 to 12 yean* old, with equal representation of boys and girls and African American and Caucasian children. Approximately one half (n = 475) of the youths also completed the CASQ-R 6 months later. Results revealed that although the CASQ-R was somewhat less reliable than the original CASQ, with moderate internal consistency reliability and fair test-retesl reliability, it demonstrated equivalent criterion-related validity with self-reported depressive symptoms. Psychometric properties of the CASQ-R showed some variation by race, such that the overall composite demonstrated better internal consistency and criterion-related validity among Caucasian youths than among African American youths. The Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ; Seligman et al., 1984), also referred to as the K ASTAN-CASQ, is the main measure of attributional style for children. The CASQ was designed to test the attributional reformulation of the learned helplessness model of depression in children (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978). A meta-analysis examining children's self-reported depressive symptoms (assessed by one of four standard self-reported depression measures) and attributional patterns for positive and negative events as measured by the CASQ revealed that youths who make more internal-stable-global attributions for negative events and more external-unstable-specific attributions for positive events report more depressive symptoms than do their peers with the reverse attributional style (r -.50;Gladstone & Kaslow, 1995). In other words, youths who report more depressive symptoms lend to blame themselves for negative events (internal) and view the causes of these events as consistent over time (stable) and generalizable across situations (global), r = .38 for depressive symptoms and negative events composite. Conversely, these

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