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 |