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Klein, Jeffery Lane. "Attributional style and alcoholic relapse /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9804031.

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Wong, Chin-keung, and 黃展強. "Attributional style of Hong Kong students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31956841.

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Michael, Steven T. "Attributional style : a confirmatory factor analysis." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/770937.

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The purpose of the current study was to investigate three aspects of the construct validity of attributional style assessment instruments. The first purpose was to determine the independence of stability and globality. The second was to determine if controllability was a dimension of attributional style. The third purpose was to determine if inventories that use real or hypothetical events measure attributional style equally well. One hundred fifty-nine female, and one hudred fifty-five male subjects, completed four questionnaires that assessed attributional style. Results provided some support for the general construct of attributional style. All four factors were found, which demonstrates the support for the four factor model. However, the two factor model may be the best overall method. No method factor (real or hypothetical stimulus event) solution was obtained. Possible sex differences are discussed. The findings are discussed in terms of attribution theory. Suggestions for further research are presented.
Department of Psychological Science

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Arnold, Karen M. "Motivational orientation, attributions and attributional style in adolescents with moderate learning difficulties." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295237.

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Coxsey, Stephen Andrew. "Attributional Style of Adult Children of Alcoholics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500907/.

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115 undergraduate students were surveyed to see if attributional style would be different for individuals with alcoholic parents, depressed parents, or neither factor. Subjects were sorted into the three groups based on their responses to a family history questionnaire. Each subject filled out two attributional style questionnaires, the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and the Attributional Style Assessment Test (ASAT-II). The three groups did not differ on attributional style for interpersonal, noninter- personal, or general situations. Within the adult children of alcoholics group, subjects reported that their successes in interpersonal situations were due to their strategy and effort, rather than ability, more so than for noninterpersonal successes.

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Shaw, Joanne Kathleen. "The role of attributional style in helping behaviour." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0034/MQ62499.pdf.

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Nelson, L. "Hostile attributional style, mentalisation and attachment in preadolescence." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444887/.

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This review aims to explore social information processing styles, mentalisation abilities, and attachment security, and their associations, in relation to aggressive behaviours. These literatures are considered separately before possible relationships between these constructs are discussed. Existing theory and empirical findings around the relationships between social information processing, attachment and mentalisation are described. The author poses some further suggestions about how these constructs may be related, and the review ends with a possible model of the development of hostile attributional styles.

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Aakre, Jennifer Marie. "Attributional style in schizophrenia: Associations with suspiciousness and depressed mood." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1277739101.

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Larkin, Warren. "Trauma and psychosis : attributional style and symptomatology in emergency paramedics." Thesis, Bangor University, 2000. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/trauma-and-psychosis--attributional-style-and-symptomatology-in-emergency-paramedics(602a4a7e-bb9d-44bb-b21a-aee695afb8c7).html.

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Kordt, Eric. "The relationship between attributional style and information technology project perception." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/186.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between attributional style and Information Technology (IT) project perception at varying job responsibility levels. To achieve this thirty participants were recruited from a large government department in the three distinct job responsibility levels of support worker (i.e. individual who undertakes activities under general direction), line manager (i.e. individual who undertakes activities under limited direction and typically performs role of team leader) and executive manager (i.e. individual who undertakes activities that involve a high a level of management skill under broad direction) and interviewed using a modified Work Attributional Style Questionnaire (WASQ) with emergent themes subsequently explored through four focus groups. Based on the research findings all job responsibility levels tend to exhibit an optimistic attributional style that characterises positive work adjustment and self-esteem. However, the attribution of failure to causes that will persist in future projects by all job responsibility levels alongside the attribution of failure to causes that have impacts beyond the project by line and executive managers have the potential to undermine this tendency to exhibit an optimistic attributional style. Reasons for the attribution of failure to causes that have impacts beyond the project include the adverse impact on perceived professionalism by peers following failure, continued inability to influence stakeholders and/or management, strategic impact of the project failure and the daunting complexity of the social and technical challenges at the macro level Whilst the tendency to exhibit an optimistic attributional style by all job responsibility levels is indicative of positive work adjustment and selfesteem, practitioners should be cognisant that individuals exhibiting an optimistic attributional style are less likely to take responsibility for IT project failure (i.e. attribute failure to situational and uncontrollable causes). This has the potential to adversely impact organisational learning. To increase the likelihood of individuals taking responsibility for IT project failure practitioners should seek to encourage individuals to freely admit to faults and acknowledge errors whilst seeking to preserve their self-worth.

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Goldstein, Benjamin I. "Coping style and attributional style as mediators of alcohol use and depression among young adults." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58990.pdf.

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Liu, Caimei. "Understanding optimism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22005.

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I present seven empirical studies that investigate two main themes regarding two main approaches of optimism: explanatory style and dispositional optimism. The first theme incorporates measurement issues and conceptual ideas of optimism and the second involves optimism interventions on depressive symptoms. In Study 1 I explored the potential psychometric structure of causal attributions and dispositional optimism. Attributions may be best viewed as reflecting large differences in cognitive style, and smaller independent positive- and negative-event biases. For dispositional optimism, a two-factor model was supported. Study 2 examined correlations between optimism and the Five-Factor Model of personality. Dispositional optimism and explanatory style had similar association patterns with personality, although there were some differences. Study 3 tested and supported a model in which dispositional optimism mediates the link between explanatory style and psychological well-being. Study 4 compared the levels of optimism expression in two ethnic groups, finding that Mainland Chinese participants were more optimistic and less pessimistic than White British. Study 5 examined attributional biases and found that individuals show more optimistic biased style for themselves than for other people. Studies 6 and 7 tested effectiveness of optimism interventions on depressive symptoms. It demonstrated that self-monitored optimism interventions on a daily basis could effectively reduce depressive symptoms and increase optimistic explanatory style. Taken together, the studies replicated some previous investigations regarding measurement issues and conceptual ideas of optimism, and explored novel approaches to examining the essence of attributional bias and effectiveness of optimism interventions in depression treatment. My investigation of attributional bias is the first to test this idea using new and comparable measures of attributions. Practicing self-administered optimism interventions is, to my knowledge, also the first time these interventions have been applied in a sample with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms. This may provide an easily monitored and low-cost alternative to traditional treatments of depression.

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Ludlow, Tracy. "Measuring Explanatory Style in Children." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367383.

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Causal explanations that individuals use to explain events in their lives are referred to as explanatory style. Three dimensions: internal-external, stable-unstable, and global-specific have most frequently been measured. Internal, stable, global explanations for negative events represent a pessimistic style, whereas these same explanations for positive events are considered optimistic. Explanations for negative events that are stable and global are considered to reflect hopelessness. The psychometric properties of the most commonly used measure of explanatory style for children, the Children Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ; Kaslow, Tanenbaum & Seligman, 1978) are poor. This is a limitation to research and theoretical advancement. Four studies were conducted in this project to investigate the measurement of explanatory style in 9-12 year old children. In Study 1, children (N = 173) completed the CASQ in a group to investigate the psychometric properties of the composite scales and subscales and the relationship between explanatory style and depressive symptoms. Internal consistency and inter-item correlations of the composite scales and subscales were poor. Regression analyses showed explanatory style for negative events (pessimism or hopelessness) made weak but significant unique contributions to the explanations of depressive symptoms. Study 2 (N = 72) investigated the stability of the CASQ scales longitudinally. The internal consistency and inter-item correlations for the CASQ scales were poor. The stability of explanatory style was low. The predicted relationship between depressive symptoms and explanatory style was found to be inconsistent, emerging at Time 1 but not at Time 2, 12 months later. Study 3 (N = 79) examined the forced-choice response scale of the CASQ using a fuzzy set approach. A fuzzy set scale which uses a Likert-type response that ranged from completely true to completely false was used to determine how well a child’s response of choice, their natural response, matched both the selected and non-selected response from the CASQ. Items on the CASQ that measure both pessimism and hopelessness were found to be a poor match to the natural responses of children. Little separation was found between the selected and non-selected responses for all items. The internal consistency of the CASQ was poor when the forced choice scoring approach was used. When Likert-type fuzzy values were used, good internal consistency was obtained. Providing a wider range of responses, obtained using fuzzy values, produced a more sensitive measure of the components of explanatory style. When the CASQ was scored according to the forced choice protocol weak, significant relationships were found between explanatory style and depressive symptoms, and explanatory style and neuroticism. There were no significant relationships found for either pessimism or hopelessness, with either depression or neuroticism using Likert-type fuzzy values. Study 4 elicited spontaneous causal explanations following success or failure on tasks that were familiar or unfamiliar. Task familiarity was manipulated. Using an interview format, children (N = 111) responded to questions, eliciting causal explanations, following task success or failures. Likert-type scales measured the internality, stability or globality of the explanation. Results showed that, following failure on two familiar tasks, acceptable levels of internal consistency were obtained on the subscales used to produce the measure of hopelessness and for the composite measure of hopelessness. This same pattern did not emerge following failure on combinations of familiar and unfamiliar events or on two tasks that were unfamiliar. Stable and global explanations and the composite measure of hopelessness, following failure on familiar tasks, were also positively related with depressive symptoms but not neuroticism. These results show that a reliable measure of hopelessness can be obtained from spontaneous explanations for failure at familiar events. Under these conditions the theoretically predicted relationship between explanatory style and depressive symptoms emerges. Conclusions were drawn about the theoretical conceptualisation of explanatory style and measurement recommendations were made that apply to 9- to 12-year-old children. Explanations for familiar events produced a consistent measure of explanatory style. The use of a Likert-type response scale to assess agreement with internal, stable, global components were shown to improve scale reliability. The findings are discussed in relation to theory and the measurement of explanatory style in children.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Phychology
Griffith Health
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Khlaifi, Faical. "Les étudiants étrangers non institutionnels en France : des "oubliés" qui analysent leur échec universitaire." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BORD0067.

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Bien que les recherches sur l'échec universitaire ne cessent de se multiplier, très peu se sont penchées sur celui des étudiants étrangers en France. C’est pourquoi la présente thèse vise à analyser les causes évoquées par ces étudiants pour expliquer leur échec ainsi que l’éventuel impact de leur culture d’origine sur leurs démarches attributionnelles. Pour répondre à cette interrogation, nous nous sommes inscrit dans le champ de la psychologie sociale, notamment avec la théorie de l'attribution causale. Cette dernière, qui constituera notre principale référence théorique, nous permettra d’appréhender la problématique de l'échec universitaire de ces étudiants. En outre, nous en avons étudié la genèse et l’évolution conceptuelle et paradigmatique en nous inspirant, pour des raisons épistémologiques et méthodologiques, du modèle attributionnel de Heider (1958) ainsi que de celui de Weiner (1986, 1992, 1994). Conscient à la fois de la complexité d’une démarche psychosociale en dehors d’une situation expérimentale et de l’importance de donner la parole aux acteurs, nous avons décidé d’entreprendre ce travail en nous basant sur des faits réels, à travers des entretiens avec des étudiants étrangers en situation d’échec universitaire
Although research on academic failure continues to grow, very few studies have been conducted on foreign students in France. Therefore this thesis aims at analyzing the reasons the students gave to explain their failure and the potential impact of culture on their attributional approaches. To answer this question, we relied on a theoretical framework by considering psychosocial obedience, including the theory of causal attribution. The latter, which will be our main theoretical reference, will allow us to cast light on these students’ academic failure. Furthermore we studied the genesis and conceptual and pragmatical evolution of this theory by basing ourselves for epistemological and methodological reasons on Heider’s attribution theory (1958) as well Weiner’s (1986, 1992, 1994). Aware of both the complexity of a psychosocial approach outside of an experimental situation and the importance of giving a voice to those directly concerned we decided to use factual information rely on real-life cases through interviews with foreign students experiencing academic failure

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Kneebone, Ian Indrik. "Attributional style and symptoms of depression in persons with multiple sclerosis." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497974.

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Herron, Denise. "The attributional style of paid carers of people with learning disabilities." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300067.

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Eachus, Peter. "Locus of control, self-efficacy and attributional style of investment professionals." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358746.

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Grant, Polly Walker. "The Influence of Running on Women's Self-Esteem and Attributional Style." Thesis, Boston College, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2769.

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Thesis advisor: Carolyn Thomas
A quasi-experimental study was done to investigate the relative influence of running on the self-esteem and attributional styles of a group of 623 women in Boston. Volunteers from the participants in the 1983 Bonne Bell 10K race formed the runners group while the two control groups, athletic non-runners and non-athletic women, were composed of volunteers randomly self-selected from among patrons in various Boston service organizations. Study participants were tested using Seligmans Attribution Style Questionnaire (1981) and Hudson's Index of Self-Esteem (1982). Results of the ASQ showed that the women who ran consistently tended to have a more internal than external locus of control and had an attributional style associated with an empowered sense of self. Results of the ISE showed that women who run consistently have a significantly higher level of self-esteem than do either the women who are athletic but who do not run or the non-athletic women, with the non-athletic women scoring with lower self-esteem than the athletic non-runners. On a subjective rating for degree of happiness, the consistent runners scored significantly higher than those women in the control groups. Both clinical and policy implications of these findings were discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1987
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work
Discipline: Social Work

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Morrison, T. "Attentional bias to threat and attributional style in the eating disorders." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445706/.

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Research in the eating disorders has begun to identify biases in the processing of threat-related information. The schema model of eating disorders suggests that these processing biases are driven by core belief content. The current paper reviews existing literature on the processing of threat-related information in the eating disorders. In particular, studies examining subliminal processing, biases in attention and memory, cognitive avoidance and attributional biases are reviewed. These studies are described within a framework that accounts for the possible stages of threat processing in the eating disorders. The clinical implications of threat processing in the eating disorders are considered, and suggestions are made for future research in this area.

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Szabo, Zsuzsanna Rozalia. "Sex-role, attributional style, and career choices: A cross-cultural analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280755.

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In the contemporary society choice of career is sex-stereotyped. There are more females in educational and nursing careers, and there are more males in engineering and science careers. Females and males perceive their roles in the society in a sex-stereotyped way and they try to fit into culturally appropriate sex-roles. People make causal attributions for different situations in life and think and behave according to the causal attributions they make. The research question of this dissertation asks if sex-role and attributional style affect career choices, and if the answer is different across cultures. Two studies were concerned with the relationship between sex-role, attributional style, and career choices at college and high school levels in two different cultures (the United States and Romania). Comparisons were made also between females in single-sex high school and coeducational high schools. A third study determined the changes in career choices following attributional retraining. Results from the studies show that career choices are sex-stereotyped and sex-roles influence choice of career in both cultures. The sex-stereotypical choice of careers is more evident in Romania. Females in single-sex education schools report more adaptive sex-roles and attributional styles, and they choose more diverse career fields than females in coeducational schools. Attributional retraining is related to changes in career choices.

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Blier, Heather K. "Social Likeability, Subtypes of Aggression, and the Attributional Style of Aggressive Youth." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33392.

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Recent efforts to understand and predict the onset and maintenance of aggression have considered the heterogeneity of this behavior. Dodge (1980) and others, have suggested a distinction in aggression based on two primary subtypes: reactive and proactive aggression. The form, severity and persistence of these aggressive subtypes may depend on an on-going interaction between individual characteristics and environmental characteristics that elicit varying antecedents and consequences (Frick, 1998; Lahey et al., 1999). In particular, there exists some empirical support for the 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 among social likeability, attributional style, and aggression subtypes in a sample of 419 youth in a non-clinical community setting. Results suggest that the external, stable, global attributional style serves to mediate the relation between social likeability and reactive, but not proactive aggression. Implications for assessment and treatment of aggression in adolescents are discussed.
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Kephart, Christina Marie. "Factors that Influence Coping Following Residential Fire: The roles of attributional style and family functioning." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31891.

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Investigations of childrenâ s adjustment following the experience of a residential fire or other disaster has indicated that the level of PTSD symptoms experienced by the child victims varies as a function of exposure and degree of loss incurred due to the trauma in a dose-response relationship. Additionally, other variables may interact with the level of exposure and loss to increase or decrease childrenâ s risk of posttraumatic symptomatology following the fire. Childrenâ s use of coping strategies has also been shown to significantly predict childrenâ s level of posttraumatic stress symptomatology. This study examined the mediating role of coping as well as the contributions of childrenâ s attributional style and family environment in the explanation of childrenâ s posttraumatic symptomatology following residential fire. In the current study, 108 children and their parents were assessed approximately one to three months and again approximately seven to ten months following their experience of a residential fire. Results indicated that at the second assessment, attributional style served as a moderator between the degree of loss children experienced and childrenâ s use of coping strategies. Children with helpless attributional styles reported low levels of active and avoidant coping regardless of their level of loss due to the fire. Children with positive attributional styles reported using low levels of coping only if they also reported low levels of loss; in contrast, those children who reported positive attributional styles and high levels of loss reported using considerably higher levels of coping. In addition, the data indicated that coping acted as a mediator between loss and posttraumatic stress symptoms both at the first and the second assessments. Childrenâ s coping activities following a trauma like residential fire may be the avenue through which loss exerts its influence on childrenâ s psychological symptoms following residential fire.
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Stanton, Maggie. "An investigation into the attributional style of clients with anger management problems." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325875.

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Mitchell, Michele. "A Study of the Attributional Style and Performance of Elite NCAA Divers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194091.

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In the sport of springboard and platform diving, subjective scoring is used. Based on a ten point scale, judges give immediate scores which reflect the diver's performance. Each diver performs a proscribed number of dives and the total of all dives is tallied to decide final placement. While final placement in a competition is determined by physical skill, a diver's mental state often determines how successful the athlete will in the competition. While there is a plethora of literature that has examined attributions of physical education classes and other sports, there is a dearth of studies addressing the attributional style of elite NCAA male and female divers. Diving requires extreme athleticism, fearlessness and a heightened kinesthetic awareness in becoming both skill-proficient and competitive. This in turn requires intrinsic motivation to meet those challenges as well as being able to make causal attributions from one competition to the next. The purpose of this study is to determine the attributional style of elite NCAA male and female divers as well as to determine if there is a difference in attributional style between male and female divers. Further, this study will determine if the attributive style is related to performance and whether there is a difference between elite NCAA male and female divers. The study will take place at the 2005 NCAA Men's and Women's Diving Championships. At each event and at the completion of his/her final diving event, each athlete will be asked to complete a self-report questionnaire - the Attributional Style Questionnaire. An objective rating of each diver's performance will be paired with his or her attibutional style, as measured by the questionnaire. These data will be analyzed statistically to determine if gender has an effect on the attributional style of elite NCAA male and female divers.

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Shen, Jun. "Loneliness among college students the interactive effects of social network and attributional style /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35302628.

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Tam, Shui Kee Tony. "Locus of control, attributional style, and school truancy : the case of Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Hull, 2004. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16065.

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The present study on school truancy was developed out of a concern about students who do not adapt to the demands of the school environment as they go through the process of transition from primary school to secondary school. It suggested that the school environment in which we expect to see behavioral manifestations of the internal conflicts which adolescents face. Specifically, it suggested that truancy is a behavior that indicates a student is not adapting to the rules and regulations of the school environment. It suggested that this behavior be explored in terms of psychological variables relevant to adolescent development. A theoretical framework derived from attribution theory and locus of control theory was utilized in an effort to explore these issues. The overall concern of the study was to understand more fully the patterns of locus of control and causal attributions of secondary school truants and non-truants in Hong Kong. The key research question was how truants and non-truants differ in these patterns in relation to family and school experiences and how these relations vary within each group. The research question was examined in a sample of 384 secondary school students of the junior forms. A structured questionnaire was administered to the students in class to obtain their responses to family and school experience measures, a slightly modified version of the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale, and an adapted version of the Attributional Style Questionnaire. The results of ANOVA showed that the truants scored higher externality of locus of control than the non-truants although the difference was slightly short of statistical significance. Multivariate analysis of variance showed that the truants scored significantly higher on the composite measure as well as each of the three dimensional measures of bad outcomes than the non-truants. The result also showed that the truants scored significantly lower on the composite measure as well as each of the three dimension measures of good outcomes than the non-truants. This pattern of attribution indicates that the truants would attribute bad events as due to internal, stable and global causes and would attribute good events as due to external, unstable and specific causes. The findings further suggest that negative experiences in school provide the context for truancy to occur. Results show that, the truants reported poorer relations with teachers, a tendency of disbelieving in the value of schooling, and more frequent involvement in problem behaviour. Clearly, the relation among truancy, locus of control, attributions, and their family and school experiences is a complex one. In view of this, the present study is conceived as an attempt leading to an initial evidence for linkages among truancy status, locus of control, family and school experiences and children's attributions for school events. This further suggests that the approach of this study may have been sound and that more research should be conducted to find additional support for the observed relationships. It is hoped that continued testing of this approach to the study of school truancy may serve to explain why some students play truant from school but others do not, even though both groups are low academic achievers.

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Scott, Raymond Henderson. "Attributional style, self-esteem, and depression, the role of lability of self-esteem." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ55240.pdf.

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Toner, Mark A. "Early adolescent peer-social attributional style and socio-emotional adjustment a prospective analysis /." Access electronically, 2005. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050812.150839/index.html.

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Shen, Jun, and 沈君. "Loneliness among college students: the interactive effects of social network and attributional style." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35302628.

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Kung, Wing-yan, and 龔詠訢. "The role of attributional style in the relationship of social axioms and forgiveness." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4559014X.

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WILSON, JAMES CLINTON. "ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE IN THREE OUTPATIENT GROUPS: RELATIONSHIP TO NEGATIVE LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSION." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187989.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the interaction of negative life events, attributional style and depression in three different outpatient groups. Secondarily, the study examined the relationship of various demographic variables to depression and attributional style. The subjects were 261 outpatients at Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco, California. They included both males and females, 20 to 75 years of age, from three departments: Psychiatry, Medicine and Adult Health. Patients who volunteered for the study were given packets consisting of a demographic data sheet and three questionnaires: the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, Short Form), the Life Experiences Survey (LES), and the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ). According to BDI and LES scores, subjects were divided into depressed and non-depressed groups and three levels of negative life change: high, moderate and low. The data were analyzed by a multivariate analysis of variance, followed by t-tests which compared the ASQ scores of depressed and non-depressed individuals at the high level of negative life change in each of the three outpatient groups. The results indicated that depressed and non-depressed Psychiatric outpatients, who had experienced high levels of recent negative life change, differed significantly in their attributional styles for hypothetically "bad" events on the ASQ. As hypothesized, the attributional styles of depressed Psychiatric outpatients were significantly more stable and global (and higher in composite total) than that of non-depressed Psychiatric outpatients. However, depressed and non-depressed Medical and Adult Health outpatients, who had experienced similarly high levels of recent negative life change, did not differ significantly in their attributional styles. Overall, the study lends support to the reformulated model of learned helplessness, but raises questions concerning the applicability of that model within particular clinical groups. It was recommended that future studies use formal diagnostic criteria in addition to the BDI, and that they employ prospective designs which follow "at risk" individuals over time.

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Swenson, Carol. "The Relationship Between Mood Elevation and Attribution Change in the Reduction of Depression." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330687/.

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This study investigated the relationship between the depressive attributional style described by Beck and Seligman and elevation of mood. It was proposed that mood elevation would reduce the level of depression and, in addition, would reduce the number of negative attributions. The reduction of negative attributions was assumed to be a more cognitively mediated process and was proposed to occur subsequent to mood change. These assumptions are contrary to the current cognitive theories of depression and attribution which view attributional style as a prerequisite to both the development and reduction of depression. Subjects were 30 undergraduate students between the ages of 19 and 40 years old who volunteered to participate in the study. They were screened on the basis of demonstrated depression (13 and above on the Beck Inventory) and susceptibility to hypnosis (high susceptibility on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility) . Subjects were randcmly assigned to one of three groups; (1) hypnosis with mood elevation, (2) hypnosis with relaxation, and (3) no treatment control. The results supported the hypothesis that mood elevation would reduce level of depression. The mood elevation group demonstrated a lowering of depression. The effects of the treatment procedure did not appear until the fourth session. As anticipated, reduction in negative attributions did not precede or coincide with reduction in depression. It was not possible to determine the change in the attributional style of subject during the time period of this study. The results were discussed in terms of Bower's Associative Network Theory in which activation of mood facilitates the access to memories, behaviors, and interpretation of events which are congruent with the mood state.

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Laurent, Christine. "Understanding depression in university women, the role of stress, attributional style, and self-efficacy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0033/MQ62234.pdf.

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Midence, Kenny. "Attributional style and psychological adjustment in male - to - female transexuals : is there a relationship?" Thesis, Bangor University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263177.

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Olson, Teresa B. "The role of attributional style, mood, and self-esteem in relation to bulimic behaviors." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/560293.

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The!Wurpose of this study was to examine the effects of attributional style, mood, and self-esteem on the tendency to engage in bulimic behaviors. Specifically, it was proposed that individuals with a depressive attributional style (i.e. internal, stable, and global causes) would exhibit negative mood and low self-esteem, which would increase their tendency to engage in binging behaviors. Final data analyses were performed on 140 college females, exclusive of obese or anorexic restrictor females, enrolled in an introductory psychology course. Data consisted of self-report questionnaires which pertained to demographic characteristics, attributional style, positive and negative mood, self-esteem, and binging behaviors. The data were evaluated using path analytic techniques. Path coefficients were obtained via a series of multiple regression analyses. Although evidence did not fully support the proposed causal model, results did support the linear relationship between self-esteem and binging behaviors, andthe attributional dimension of globality with negative mood. Level of self-esteem appears to play an important role in relation to binge behaviors among the present nonclinical sample. Suggestions for future research and alternative models are proposed.
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Ireland, Susan Rebecca. "Relationships between Type A beliefs, anger, hostility, attributional style, and cardiovascular health among coaches." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3034.

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This study hypothesized that college and university basketball coaches who endorse Type A beliefs, have a hostile attitudinal set, an internal attributional style, and express their anger outwardly, are at the greatest risk for cardiovascular disease. Seventy-one head coaches of men's basketball teams from NCAA Division I, II, and III schools completed measures of Type A beliefs, hostility, anger expression, and attributional style. Canonical correlation analyses were performed to assess the relative contribution of each of the psychological measures toward prediction of negative behavior and cardiovascular disease symptomology. A significant multivariate relationship was obtained between measures of Type A beliefs, hostility, stress, and attributional style and measures of negative feelings and actions during contests, but not for measures of health and symptoms of cardiovascular disease. For this sample of coaches, stress was identified as a significant contributor to their negative feelings and actions.

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Byrd, Devin A. "Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents : an examination of cognition and attributional style /." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03042009-041309/.

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Pearce, Emma. "Attributional style and self concept in sex offenders with persecutory delusions : an exploratory study." Thesis, Bangor University, 2002. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/attributional-style-and-self-concept-in-sex-offenders-with-persecutory-delusions--an-exploratory-study(06822697-a79e-4d6a-bf9b-ed425d97a356).html.

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To date no study has explored persecutory delusions in people who commit sexual offences, and whether attributional style and self-concept are any different between sex offenders with and without persecutory delusions. The present study is preceded by a literature review exploring literature on mentally ill sexually offenders. As this area of research is extremely limited to further understanding of mentally ill sex offenders, literature on individuals with persecutory delusions, specifically attributional style and self-esteem will be presented. Finally, research on attributions and self-esteem in sexual offenders is reviewed. The literature review concludes with implications for future research and clinical interventions. This is followed by a research study that aims to explore the relationship between attributional style and self-concept in men with persecutory delusions who commit sexual offences. Sex offenders with persecutory delusions, sex offenders without delusions and normal controls were compared on implicit and explicit measures of attributional style and self-esteem. The three groups were found to have similar attributional styles and levels of self-esteem and no significant differences were found between the three groups. The results are discussed in light of these findings. Limitations of the study are discussed together with future implications for research and treatment of mentally ill sex offenders.

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Kebker, Eric Ford. "Attributional Style, Presenting Symptoms, And Readiness to Change in Female Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors." Diss., NSUWorks, 2010. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_stuetd/42.

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The purpose of this study was to gain a better 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 female child sexual abuse survivors seeking psychotherapy. One factor that influences the effectiveness of psychotherapy is a client's degree of motivation. The concept of "stage of change" has been used as a measure of client motivation. Stage of change consists of four basic stages; precontemplative, contemplative, action, and maintenance. Prior research has demonstrated that assisting clients in transitioning from a lower to a higher stage of change early in psychotherapy can improve outcomes. Assigning clients a "readiness to change" score is a simple method of categorizing their stage of change. There are many variables that could impact a client's readiness to change. The two selected for this study were attributional style and presenting symptoms. The statistical analysis consisted of using correlation to determine the strength of the relationship between readiness to change, overall attribution styles, and presenting symptoms. Multiple regression was used to see how much of the variance in readiness to change could be accounted for by different levels of attributions or symptomatology. No correlation was found between readiness to change and the other variables, although internal attribution style, external attribution style, and symptomatology were all correlated with each other. Likewise, the different levels of attribution and symptomatology did not account for a significant amount of variance in readiness to change. A secondary analysis into the relationship between total attributions endorsed and symptomatology provided evidence that individuals who make more attributions report significantly more presenting symptoms than individuals who make fewer attributions. The conclusions drawn from this study focus on the importance of utilizing client motivation in the initial sessions of therapy, and propose that focusing on reducing the number of attributions made could be more beneficial to clients than helping them move from one attribution style to another.

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Wheeler, Marlene L. "Effect of attachment and threat of abandonment on intimacy anger, aggressive behavior, and attributional style." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Smit, Anel Leonie. "The sex-role identity, attributional style and self-esteem of a group of female students." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1211.

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Wright, Amy E. "Conceptualising the psychological adaptation of trainee clinical psychologists: the contribution of attributional style and personality." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484796.

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Student Health Professionals (SHPs) are at risk for symptoms relating to a range of psychological problems, i~c1uding anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol use, and stress. It is therefore important to develop methods for identifying individuals who might be at current or future risk, arid to establish theoretically supported interventions. The current literature review indicates that further research is required in these areas and seeks to provide some suggestions about empirically based frameworks which might support approaches to screening and intervention. Differences between professional groups indicate the need for research to be focussed on specific groups of SHPs, Trainee Clinical Psychologists (TCPs) are the focus of the current paper. Previous conceptualisations of the psychological problems of TCPs are reviewed. The example of depression in undergraduate students is then taken as an illustration of the potential applications of cognitive models for identifying and intervening with individuals at risk of depression and other problems. The possible role of cognitive constructs (dysfunctional attitudes and attributional style) in TCP experiences of poor psychological adaptation is discussed. The purpose of the empirical paper was to explore the contributions of two risk factors (personality as conceived of within the five-factor model, and attributional style), to psychological adaptation (problems relating to depression, anxiety, self-esteem and work adjustment) in TCPs. Structural equation modelling was used to model these relationships. The latent personality factor of stability (neuroticism reversed, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) was an extremely good predictor of psychological adaptation. Vlhen stability was controlled for the contribution.of attributional style was not significant. However given the clinical relevance of attributional style and potential for modification it was also considered in a separate model as a sole predictor where it was found to be significant. Implications for screening and intervention are discussed.

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Thomas, Colin. "An investigation of the relationships between attributional style, self-efficacy and social avoidance and intribition /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SPS/09spst455.pdf.

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Chan, Ping-yin Jason. "The moderating influence of positive life events, social support, and attributional style on psychological distress." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29649997.

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Najjar, Khadeja. "AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE, REAPPRAISAL, AND DEPRESSION RISK IN ARAB AMERICANS." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1529678394305411.

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Gregory, Sarah. "Pyschopathology and childhood sexual abuse : an investigation of the relationship between sexual arousal, attributional style, attributions of blame for CSA and psychological adjustment." Thesis, Bangor University, 2000. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/pyschopathology-and-childhood-sexual-abuse--an-investigation-of-the-relationship-between-sexual-arousal-attributional-style-attributions-of-blame-for-csa-and-psychological-adjustment(cc73a6f8-8565-4998-8fbb-5fee5ad3e7c3).html.

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The relationships between sexual arousal, attributional style, attributions of blame for child sexual abuse (CSA) and psychopathology were investigated in a non-clinical sample. One hundred female undergraduates completed a questionnaire incorporating the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, (Rosenberg, 1965), the Symptom Checklist 90-R (Derogatis, 1996), the Extended Attributional Style Questionnaire (Peterson et al., 1988) and questions about CSA experiences. Participants reporting CSA also completed the Attributions of Responsibility and Blame Scales (McMillen and Zuravin, 1997), and were asked if they had experienced sexual arousal during their CSA. Twenty five per cent of participants reported a history of CSA, and of this group, 32% reported experiencing sexual arousal during CSA. The CSA group had higher levels of symptomatology and negative attributional style than the Comparison non-abused group. Within the CSA group, symptomatology was positively associated with self-blame and negative attributional style, and negatively associated with selfesteem. Self-blame for CSA was positively associated with family/other blame, and negatively associated with self-esteem. The Aroused group experienced greater frequency and severity (number of types) of CSA, and showed higher levels of selfblame for the CSA than the Non-Aroused group. No evidence was found in the current study for a connection between sexual arousal and psychopathology. Further research using a larger sample size is indicated. The importance of including frequency, severity and sexual arousal as possible characteristics of CSA experiences during clinical assessment and interventions with adult survivors and focussing treatment strategies accordingly is discussed.

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Murphy, Darryl Paul. "Enhancement of adolescent well being through enhancement of self esteem, self efficacy, and positive attributional style /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0019/MQ54941.pdf.

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Warm, Anna. "The role of video game violence in hostile affect, cognitions and attributional style among adolescent players." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 1999. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/19055/.

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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 video games, which are causally related to game violence. A series of experiments examined short-term changes in adolescent players following various types of video game play. Experiment 1 identified a number of important game dimensions (i.e., characteristics of video game play) and explored their relationship to overall game enjoyment using path analysis. Of particular interest was the finding that violence did not strongly influence game enjoyment. In Experiment 2, increases in affective hostility and anger were reported after both types of video game play. Significantly greater increases after violent video game play provided support for a video game violence-hostile affect relation. However, the findings of subsequent experiments produced contrasting evidence showing that affective changes following video game play do not predictably vary as a function of game violence, but appear to be linearly related to video game pace. Game violence was more strongly implicated in cognitive effects of video game play. Evidence that game violence affects cognitions emerged on a variety of measures. These cognitive effects were seen as being reflective of aggression priming and short-term disinhibition processes. Finally, the extent to which short-term effects of violent video game play dispose players towards aggression was investigated using attribution and response tendency measures. Whilst the majority of the analyses failed to produce effects of game violence on attributions and response tendencies, an interesting interaction emerged involving game violence effects in females. The nature of the inteaction was viewed as being best explained by modelling processes, though disinhibition explanations were also viewed as being compatible. The findings were interpreted within existing social-psychological theories of media-elicited aggression. A number of video game effects could be accounted for using Berkowitz's cognitive neo-associationist framework, whilst other findings implicated the usefulness of Zillmann's excitation-transfer theory for understanding video game effects. Ultimately, the results were conceptualised using Anderson's General Affective Aggression model. Overall, the research was fairly successful in highlighting a number of short-term affective and cognitive states that can result from video game play. However, these effects were generally not manifested in behavioural tendencies towards others. The few findings that did implicate increases in aggressive behavioural tendencies were difficult to place within Anderson's framework, as they did not parallel changes at earlier stages of the model (i.e. affective and cognitive changes). Modelling and/or possibly disinhibition effects were viewed as the most appropriate theoretical concepts for explaining the findings relating to behavioural tendencies. The implications of the findings in relation to previous research on video game and media effects and limitations to the generalisability of the findings are discussed. Finally, several recommendations for future research are outlined.

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Law, Ping Zion. "The relationship of client-counsellor similarity in locus of control and attributional style to continuation in counselling." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29654051.

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Whisnant, Jill Lynsey Cowam. "The role of attributional style in the development of depression in college females with pathological eating practices." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/whisnantj/jillwhisnant.pdf.

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