Research Article
Causal Attribution and Illness Perception: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mexican Patients with Psychosis
Table 3
Significant correlations between illness perception items and illness attribution categories (
= 62).
| Illness perception items | Illness attribution categories | |
| () My illness affects my lifec | Personality | .44** | Family | .28* | Society | .27* |
| () My illness will continue foreverc | — | — |
| () I have extreme control over my illnessc | — | — |
| () I am extremely concerned about my illnesse | Biology | .29* | Personality | .25* | Family | .26* |
| () I very clearly understand my illnessu | Personality | −.26* | Family | −.25* |
| () My illness extremely affects me emotionallye | Personality | .30* | Family | .26* | Society | .27* |
| (7) Treatment is extremely helpful for my illnessc | — | — |
| (8) I experience many severe symptoms from my illnessc | — | — |
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Cognitive dimension item, eemotional dimension item, and uunderstanding dimension item. , .
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