Key result
New 11-item Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale shows strong validity, capturing ~65% of variance across two factors.
Why the study?
Findings on the effects of behavioral and characterological self-blame on health outcomes in cardiovascular disease are mixed, possibly due to lack of validated multiple-item measures.
Cross-Sectional (n=121)
The newly developed 11-item Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale is a reliable and valid tool for assessing behavioral and characterological self-blame in patients with cardiovascular disease.
Provides validated Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale for CVD assessment; leaves open its prognostic value and clinical utility pending further studies.
Patients with cardiovascular disease may attribute their cardiovascular disease to their behaviors (behavioral self-blame) or to their dispositions (characterological self-blame). However, findings are mixed on the effects of behavioral self-blame and characterological self-blame on health outcomes, possibly because there are no validated, multiple-item measures. This study developed and tested an 11-item Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale via questionnaire data from 121 patients with cardiovascular disease. Results yielded a two-factor structure that explained 65 percent of the variance, with good reliability and discriminant validity. Findings suggest that the scale is reliable and valid and can be used to understand the cardiac attributions patients create.
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Harry et al. (2018) conducted a cross-sectional in Cardiovascular disease (n=121). Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale was evaluated on Factor structure, reliability, and validity. The 11-item Cardiac Self-Blame Attributions scale yielded a two-factor structure explaining 65% of the variance, demonstrating good reliability and discriminant validity.
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