Specific features were found in the cognitive style of assessing a stressful situation by blind and deaf adolescents as well as by their mothers. Blind adolescents and their mothers were more inclined to blame family members for the occurrence of stress and to believe they to be able to control and solve the problem, whereas the families of deaf adolescents were inclined to believe that stress is caused by chance factors or by non-family members. A clearly marked influence of the locus of the primary cognitive assessment of a stressor (causal attribution) on subsequent assessments (causal attributions of controllability and responsibility for problem solving) were revealed: If a stressor was initially attributed as internal or external, it was highly probable that the same locus will remain the same in other causal attributions as well.