Depressed people often make global attributions to explain failures. For example, a global explanation for a relationship failure might be,

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A global attribution implies that the cause of the failure is attributed to a broad, stable, and uncontrollable factor such as the belief that all good partners are already taken. Choice A fits this description while choices B, C, and D have specific and controllable factors that caused the relationship failure.

Depressed People Often Make Global Attributions to Explain Failures