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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2008 Oct 1;9(4):257–268. doi: 10.1017/S1463423608000820

Table 1.

Patient vignette variables and levels

Variable 1: medical illness comorbidity/stressor Variable 2: attributional style Variable 3: attitude towards mental health treatment Variable 4: gender Variable 5: race
(1) Myocardial infarction (1) Somatic attributional style for depression symptoms (1) Accepting (1) Female (1) African-American
(2) Good health and psychosocial stressor (2) Psychological attributional style for depression symptoms (2) Reluctant (2) Male (2) White