E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study attempted to test the effects of consensus perception and objective consensus information of negative life events on depression in the context of attributional theory. And this study attempted to test whether depressives have realistic consensus perception. The results of cross-sectional data from 214 college students showed that objective consensus information of negative life events tended to predict depression but consensus perception did not. The mediation effect of event-attribution between objective consensus information and depression was significant. Nondepressives showed more accurate consensus perception than depressives. These findings were discussed in terms of the attributional theory and the cognitive distortion theory of depression. The limitations and the suggestions for future researches were also discussed.