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  • Title: Attributions and self-esteem in depression and chronic fatigue syndromes.
    Author: Powell R, Dolan R, Wessely S.
    Journal: J Psychosom Res; 1990; 34(6):665-73. PubMed ID: 2290139.
    Abstract:
    There is considerable overlap in symptomatology between chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and affective disorder. We report a comparison of depressive phenomenology and attributional style between a group of CFS subjects seen in a specialized medical setting, which included a high proportion with depression diagnosed by Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), and depressed controls seen in a specialized psychiatric setting. Significant symptomatic differences between the depressed CFS group and depressed controls were observed for features such as self-esteem and guilt as well as attribution of illness. All the CFS groups tended to attribute their symptoms to external causes whereas the depressed controls experienced inward attribution. This may have resulted from differences in the severity of mood disorder between the samples, but it is also suggested that an outward style of attribution protects the depressed CFS patients from cognitive changes associated with low mood but at the expense of greater vulnerability towards somatic symptoms such as fatigue.
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