Dominque broke her leg right before she was to go on spring break with her friends. "It figures," she says. "Things like this always happen to me exactly when they shouldn't. That's just the way it is." This is an example of a(n) __________.

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Dominque is interpreting this negative event as a part of a pattern where bad things always happen to her at the worst possible time. This is an example of a pessimistic explanatory style, which is characterized by explaining negative events as stable, internal, and global factors.

Dominque Broke Her Leg Right Before She Was to Go