PMID: 16532576Mar 15, 2006Paper

Attributions for negative events in the partners of adults with type I diabetes: Associations with partners' expressed emotion and marital adjustment

British Journal of Health Psychology
Alison WeardenRob Davies

Abstract

An attribution-emotion model of reactions to illness was tested in a sample of partners of 60 adult patients with type I diabetes. Partners were interviewed using the Camberwell family interview (CFI), from which spontaneous attributions for negative events were extracted and coded. Events were classified into diabetes and non-diabetes events. Partners also completed questionnaire measures of marital adjustment, anxiety and depression. Compared with low expressed emotion (EE) partners, high-EE partners attributed proportionally more negative diabetes events (e.g. patient characteristics and behaviour) to factors controllable by and personal to the patient. High-EE partners were more anxious than low-EE partners, and made more responsibility attributions (attributions rated as both internal and controllable and personal). Partners with poorer marital adjustment made more responsibility attributions, but only for non-diabetes events. Whereas attributions for both diabetes and non-diabetes events were related to partners' EE, attributions for diabetes events were not significantly associated with partners' marital adjustment.

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