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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Attributional Style"”.
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Culture, attributional style, and anticipations about counseling
… the relationship of a person's characteristics, attributional style, and anticipations about counseling. Specifically, the study examined four general research questions: (a) How are culture, attributional style consisting of attributions of blame and control related to anticipations about …
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The Teenage Attributional Style Questionnaire (TASQ): A valence and dimension-sensitive methodology for exploring attributional style in adolescent populations
… focussed on the development and validation of an attributional style (AS) measure, the Teenage Attributional Style Questionnaire (TASQ), for use with adolescent and young adult populations. The AS construct has been employed to understand other variables believed to depend on differences in the …
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Examining Political Orientation, Attributional style, and Affirmative Action
<p>The correlations among political orientation, attributional style, emotion, and support for Affirmative Action were investigated. Questionnaire data were collected from a university sample in southern California. The results indicate a positive correlation between political orientation and …
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The relationship between coaching environment and athlete attributional style
<p>This study examined the relationship between attributional style and perceived coaching behaviors in collegiate cross-country/track and field athletes in the USA and Ireland. Participants included seventy-three collegiate athletes (Ireland: n = 24 male, n = 18 female, mean ± SD age: 20.39 ± 1.61 …
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Attributional style: a comparison of assertive and aggressive children
… study. First, quasi-experimental tasks assessing attributional style were used to investigate the mediating role of social cognitive processes in aggressive behavior for both boys and girls. Secondly, the use of current self-report measures of children's assertive and attributional style allowed …
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An exploration of attributional style using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method
… study explored the association between cognitive style and depression. Phase I: 195 participants completed questionnaires that assessed cognitive style and psychological distress. Among these participants the expected relationships were found between depression, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, …
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Social Likeability, Subtypes of Aggression, and the Attributional Style of Aggressive Youth
… existence of relations among social likeability, attributional style, and particular subtypes of aggression symptomology. However, the exact nature of this relation is unclear. The current study examined two competing models, the mediator and moderator models, to assess the nature of the relations …
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Attributional Style, Presenting Symptoms, And Readiness to Change in Female Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors
… understanding of the effect that attribution style and presenting symptoms has on the self-reported readiness to change of female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The aim was to demonstrate that the stages of change are a useful concept in understanding how to approach treatment with …
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Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: an examination of cognition and attributional style
The relationship of attributional style to anxiety and depression in children and adolescents has received little attention in comparison to studies conducted with adult populations. However, preliminary studies suggest that children and adolescents evidence similar attributional style patterns to …
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Examining Locus of Control and Attributional Style as Contributing Factors in the Narcissism-Aggression Relation
… 2008) in youth. The current study examined attributional style (i.e., intemality vs. extemality) and locus of control as contributing variables in the narcissism-aggression relation in adolescents. The current study consisted of 148 male and 26 female at-risk adolescents (M = 16.04 years, …
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Factors that Influence Coping Following Residential Fire: The roles of attributional style and family functioning
… as well as the contributions of children's attributional style and family environment in the explanation of children's posttraumatic symptomatology following residential fire. In the current study, 108 children and their parents were assessed approximately one to three months and again …
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The role of attributional style, dysfunctional attitudes, and negative life events on depression in college students
… life events are imparted by specific cognitive styles; This study incorporated the major tenets of both theories to examine the role of dysfunctional attitudes, attributional style, and negative life events on Beck Depression Inventory scores in college students. It was hypothesized that the …
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Causal attributions and posttraumatic stress disorder: The relationships among dispositional attributional style, trauma-specific attributions, and PTSD
… revisions suggest that both dispositional attributional style and event-specific attributions may influence people’s responses to events. Attribution theory has been applied to the search for risk and resiliency factors in trauma survivors, but few studies have compared dispositional …
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The role of video game violence in hostile affect, cognitions and attributional style among adolescent players: Volume 1
A central aim of the present research was to investigate the short-term influences of video game play on aggression-related psychological states (including affect, cognitions, attributions and behavioural tendencies). More specifically, efforts were directed at establishing psychological effects of …
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A multidimensional measurement approach and analysis of children's motivation for reading, attributional style, and reading achievement
The present study investigates the usefulness of a multi-method approach to the measurement of reading motivation and achievement. A sample of 127 elementary and middle-school children aged 10 to 14 responded to measures of motivation, attributions, and achievement both longitudinally and in a …
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The role played by hardiness and attributional style in the dynamics of stress and coping processes amongst teachers
… examines the relationship between hardiness, attributional style and coping processes amongst teachers. Fifty seven female and fifteen male teachers all working at a private school in Cape Town voluntarily participated in the study.
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Effects of attributional style and health locus of control on emotional support: young adult partnerships shaped by mental illness
… research was to investigate the effects of both attributional style and health locus of control on emotional support within potential partnerships that are affected by mental illness. The research focused on the young adult population due to the prevalence of mental illness. Based on previous …
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