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 attributional style. A ,negative correlation was found between attributional style and anger, and a positive correlation was found between attributional style and sympathy. Additionally, anger correlated negatively with support for Affirmative Action, while sympathy correlated positively with support Affirmative Action. These findings •are congruent with previous research (Zucker and Weiner, 1993) indicating correlations among political orientation, attributional style, emotion, and support for Welfare policies.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral Project

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year

2003

Author dc:creator

• Boone, Derrick A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Matt L. Riggs
• Edward Garner
• Louis Jenkins

• Psychology
• Political psychology; Personality and politics; Minorities -- Employment; Discrimination in Employment; Affirmative action programs; Attribution (Social psychology)

Statement dc:rights

• This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/659

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsrepository.llu.edu:etd-1679