Before revision: Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 25(4), 265-273. doi:10.1207/S15324834BASP2504_1 Depression and self-blame The hopelessness theory of depression proposes that depression is caused by two variables: attribution of negative events to stable and global causes, and other cognitive factors like low self-esteem (Krith, 2014).
After revision: Self-guilt and self-blame Self-guilt and self-blame are very similar, they both cause low self-esteem and URLBasic and Applied Social Psychology, 25(4), 265-273. doi:10.1207/S15324834BASP2504_1 Depression and self-blame The hopelessness theory of depression proposes that depression is caused by two variables: attribution of negative events to stable and global causes, and other cognitive factors like low self-esteem (Krith, 2014).