Causal attributions among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: gender aspects and relation to depressive symptomatology.

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Causal attributions made by patients for their coronary heart disease may contribute to gender differences in emotional adjustment. The purpose of this study was to determine gender differences in causal attributions and to analyze the associations between causal attributions and depressive symptomatology in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Nine hundred and seventy-nine patients...

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