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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"Attributions"”.
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Causal attributions for marital separation
… the structure and content of real-life causal attributions, using this data to examine some important theoretical and empirical issues within attribution theory. Chapter one provides a justificatory backdrop to this research. It is argued here that this type of real-life exploratory research is …
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Predictors of attributions of aggression
… associations between instrumental and expressive attributions of aggression and locus of control, empathy and impulsivity and to explore the moderating effects of sex differences in such constructs. It was predicted that there would be sex differences in expressions of aggression; that men would …
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Leadership attributions of subordinate absenteeism
The present research examined whether the attributions a supervisor makes in response to subordinate absenteeism are influenced by a subordinate's prior absence history, the nature of the subordinate's excuse, and the outcomes of the absence episode. In addition, this study investigated the effects …
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Communication and attributions: The interrelations of parent and peer support, disclosure, and learned helpless attributions
… the effect of disclosure on learned helpless attributions, through the mediators of paternal, maternal, and peer support in sample of college undergraduates enrolled in psychology classes. In two online data collection points, participants completed measures on peer, paternal, and maternal …
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Binegativity, Causal Attributions, and Adult Attachment
… looking at binegativity's relationship with attributions of controllability of sexual orientation and adult attachment style. Previous research had demonstrated a significant relationship between attributions of causality and sexual orientation stigma. When sexual orientation of lesbian women …
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Causal attributions and posttraumatic stress disorder: The relationships among dispositional attributional style, trauma-specific attributions, and PTSD
… 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 attributional style with traumaspecific …
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The effects of salience of gender attributions and locus of blame attributions on ratings of an analogue counselor
… assessed the extent to which Gender Salient Attributions (High vs. Low GSA) and Locus of Blame Attributions (Internal vs. External LBA) predict differential treatment evaluations in an analogue context. The hypotheses anticipated the findings of (a) no significant relationships between GSAs …
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Parental Attributions And Discipline Of Child Behavior
… among parental depression and anger, attributions of control, discipline, parent-child relationship variables, and children's behavior problems. Results were based on the responses of parents (55 mothers and 13 fathers) with children in Head Start and parents (52 mothers and 4 fathers) …
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Social skills and attributions of Asperger's Syndrome
The purpose of this study was a single subject design (a) measuring where in social skills ability, a male high school student diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, is deficient based off of 5 subscales of social skills and then (b) creating an intervention focused on improving the areas of weakness …
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The impact of voice on trust attributions
… their own. Yet, research on trustworthiness attributions to speakers is scarce and contradictory, and very often uses explicit data, which do not predict actual trusting behaviour. However, measuring behaviour is very important to have an actual representation of trust. This thesis contains 5 …
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Cultural study of Attributions of Sports Fans
Cultural differences in the attributions of sports fans in the US have not been sufficiently explored. Studies have shown that individualists have the tendency to make more internal attributions compared to collectivists (Kashima & Triandis, 1986; Al-Zahrani & Kaplowitz, 1993; Cha & Nam, 1985; …
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Challenging behaviours : caregiver attributions and emotional experiences
… impact on caregivers, which may affect the attributions they make about the behaviours. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify factors which are related to the causal attributions carers make about challenging behaviours. Sixteen quantitative studies that had examined carer …
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Attributions following influence attempts : a cognitive, informational approach
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Attributions following influence attempts : a cognitive, informational approach
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Attributions of Problem Cause and Solution in Therapy
The relation between attributions of responsibility for problem cause and attributions of responsibility for solution (Brickman, Rabinowitz, Karuza, Coates, Cohn, & Kidder, 1982) with early evaluation of psychotherapy in three university counseling centers was investigated. Participants were 24 …
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Relationship Satisfaction and Responsibility Attributions for Relationship Maintenance
… relationship satisfaction and responsibility attributions for relationship maintenance, following up on couples who have been married for 2--3 years, in order to explore how individuals change during the first few years of a marital relationship, with respect to positive and negative …
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Examining religious and spiritual predictors of poverty attributions
… were associated with internal or external attributions for the causes of poverty. Such attributions are important as they may shape the types of policies and interventions that individuals support to alleviate poverty. Across two studies with samples of Christian students from a Catholic …
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Two Sources of Influence Related to the Use of the Discounting Principle: Specific Versus General Causal Attributions and the Believability of Attributions
Numerous studies on causal attribution have supported the discounting principle which has been stated by Kelley (1973) as follows: "The role of a given cause in producing a given effect is discounted if other causes are also present" (p. 113). Kun, Murray, and Sredl (1980) have noted that …
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