Byrne D G
Psychother Psychosom. 1980;33(1-2):7-13. doi: 10.1159/000287409.
The direction of attributed responsibility for the occurrence of stressful life events in the year prior to illness onset was examined for 120 survivors of myocardial infarction and 40 patients with chest pain but without myocardial infarction. Additionally, feelings of helplessness in response to the same events were examined to collectively test the hypothesis that patients with the more serious illness of myocardial infarction would see responsibility for stressful life events as lying primarily with sources other than themselves, and would thereby be characterized by feelings of helplessness. The two groups were not significantly different on measures of responsibility, but patients with myocardial infarction reported significantly greater feelings of helplessness than the other group. This, together with a significant negative correlation between helplessness and self-responsibility, and significant positive correlations between other and chance responsibility, was considered to give firm but indirect support to the hypothesis.
对120名心肌梗死幸存者和40名有胸痛但无心肌梗死的患者，研究了疾病发作前一年应激性生活事件发生的归因责任方向。此外，还研究了对相同事件的无助感，以共同检验这一假设，即患有更严重心肌梗死疾病的患者会认为应激性生活事件的责任主要在于自身以外的来源，从而表现出无助感。两组在责任测量方面无显著差异，但心肌梗死患者报告的无助感明显高于另一组。这一点，连同无助感与自我责任之间的显著负相关，以及他人责任和偶然责任之间的显著正相关，被认为为该假设提供了有力但间接的支持。
