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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Internal attributions"”.
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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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Internal and External Attributions by Managers in Earnings Conference Calls
… I examine whether managers make self-serving attributions by internally (externally) attributing favorable (unfavorable) performance or demonstrate leadership by accepting blame and deflecting praise when communicating with analysts and investors. After validating the attribution measure I use …
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*Attributions and Emotions: The Impact of *Situation and Person Factors
… how situation and person factors influenced attributions and emotions. As predicted, both situation (i.e., life domain and control) and person factors (i.e., sex and gender) influenced attributions. Participants reported higher internal and lower external attributions in response to high …
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Mood Management in Bipolar Disorder : A Five Stage Process.
… a shorter duration of mood and made more internal attributions for hypomanic and depressive experiences. Furthermore, while people with BD reported implementing helpful coping strategies (CS) to manage low mood, the most commonly used CS for mania were related to stimulating behaviours …
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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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Dimensionality Of Causal Attributions In Nonacademic Situations: The Effects Of Antecedent Information And Response Format
The dimensionality underlying causal attributions to nonacademic behaviors (an accomplishment, an emotion, and an opinion) was investigated in four studies varying antecedent information (presence or absence) and response format (rating scale or open ended). In the information present conditions, …
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Perceptions of homelessness : an exploratory study on the mediated inference process
… is perceived through media coverage, and 2) what attributions of causality and responsibility are extricated from the vast multitude of media messages. An integration of theoretical frameworks within social-psychology (attribution and priming theory) and communication (agenda setting and framing …
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An Examination of Moral Injury, Moral Emotions, and Adult Attachment in the Prediction of PTSD for Male Veterans
… injury is posited to be understood using stable, internal attributions about the self and others. Litz and colleagues (2009) posited a causal model to explicate moral injury, including shame-proneness and guilt in the prediction of PTSD re-experiencing and avoidance/emotional numbing symptom …
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The effects of sex of the leader, sex of the subordinate, locus of cause, stability of cause, and leader involvement on attributions and corrective actions
… of the experimenter and performed poorly due to internal-stable (Ability), internal-unstable (Effort), external-stable (Task difficulty), or external-unstable (Luck) factors. Leaders made attributions for the poor performance and rated the appropriateness of five corrective actions: (a) training; …
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The Construct of Substance Abuse Enabling Applied to Poor Performance Management: How Managers Deal With Poor Performing Employees
The purpose of this study was to examine the attributions and responses that managers make to poor performance using the construct of enabling from the field of substance abuse. Approximately 200 government and 55 non-government managers responded to a three-part questionnaire exploring managers' …
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Usability of Pictorial Assembly Instructions for Young Children
… self-efficacy and a greater tendency toward internal attributions, which was exacerbated by assembly of a boy-oriented toy. Six-year-old children were more affected by excess extraneous cognitive load and inaccurate information, such as color mismatches between the instructions and object. …
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Psychological aspects and potential pathogenic processes of achievement striving associated with the Type A personality
… compared to Type B individuals, tend to make internal attributions for failure, while at the same time, they take less personal credit for success. Finally, the results of Experiment III suggest that the Type A personality is related to general negative affective states, psychosomatic illness, …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Counseling Paths to Restore Financial Well-being
… in how they attribute causality (external or internal) to a job loss and how well these match reality (i.e., whether the loss stems from external factors outside their control or from internal factors such as deficient job skills and performance). We argue that whether these causality …