What is an explanatory style?
The explaining style is a psychological attribute that includes how individuals explain the events that are happening in their lives. The explanation may be either positive or negative and eventually have a deep effect on the individual's personality. The states of the minds of cynicism, pessimism and optimism are also significantly influenced by the explanatory style of man.
Modern psychology has determined three key aspects of this attribute: personal, permanent and ubiquitous. The personal element includes how the individual perceives the cause of the event; He can see an event as something completely his own, or as something caused by external stimuli, completely beyond himself. In a permanent aspect of the explanatory style, the individual explains the extent of the cause; It could consider this to be fixed and permanent or as a temporary and a product of chance. The ubiquitous component means to what extent the individual explains the effects of the situation; This may be considered a problem that goes through all the problems in his life, or it can consider it a fleeting result na great cause.
The daily conversational language contains countless examples of explanatory style. A statement like "it was my fault" and "nothing ever goes" is the main examples of a pessimistic explanatory style. The phrases like "it will also pass" and "Easy Come, Easy Go" are illustrations of optimistic explanatory style.
evidence suggests that a pessimistic explanatory style plays a major role in the development of stress, mental illness and even physical illness. The practice of cognitive therapy seeks to correct mental problems by changing the negative ways of thinking of the patient and often deals with the pessimistic explanatory style of the patient. If it is uncontrolled, pessimism can lead to learned helplessness, a psychological theory in which the individual feels no control over the result of the situation, resulting in depression or other mental illnesses. On the contrary, an individual with an optimistic explanatory styleEM can cultivate learned optimism, which means an individual that challenges any negative explanation it will give.
The explanatory style is largely the product of an individual's locus, which is a social psychological term, which means how thoroughly the individual believes that he controls the events that influence him. People who have a high locus can see events in their lives as products of their own thinking or behavior. Those with a lower place of control believe that they have no power in the events of their lives and are victims of circumstances.