Page No 231-238
Fareeda Shaheen and Md. Shamim Alam
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Psychological distress and its relation to attributional styles and coping strategies
were studied in a sample of 300 (150 male and 150 female) eleventh grade students.
It was found that composite attribution for positive events and its three dimensions
(i.e. internal-external, stable-unstable and global- specific) were negatively correlated
with psychological distress and composite attribution for negative events and its
three dimensions (i.e. internal-external, stable-unstable and global-specific) were
positively correlated with psychological distress. It was also found that problem
focused coping strategies negatively related to psychological distress and avoidance
coping positively related to psychological distress. Further more, it was found that
Science students scored higher on composite negative and its two dimension i.e.
stable-unstable and global-specific negative. It was also found that Science students
used more problem focused coping while Arts students used more avoidance
coping, The result also revealed that Arts students experience more psychological
distress as compared to Science students