Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Negative attributions'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 38 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Negative attributions.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Dharnidharka, Prerana. "Differentiation, negative attributions and sexual desire in committed relationships." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35400.
Full textSchool of Family Studies and Human Services
Amber V. Vennum
Sexual desire is important to personal and relational well-being but inevitably declines over time in committed relationships. Individuals, further, commonly report times when they desire more or less sex than their partners (desire discrepancy) which is negatively associated with both relationship and sexual satisfaction. How partner’s make meaning out of (i.e., attributions about their partner’s lower desire for sex) and respond (pursue, withdraw or engage) to moments of discrepant desire is likely influenced by the extent to which partners are able to maintain a clear sense of self in the context of physical and emotional closeness (i.e., their level of differentiation), although this has yet to be tested. Through two studies, I explored the types of attributions and behaviors in response to desire discrepancies and how negative attributions and behaviors mediate the link between differentiation and sexual desire. Specifically in Study 1, I analyzed open-ended responses from 463 participants, using deductive content analysis to examine types of negative attributions and behaviors in response to moments of desire discrepancy. In Study 2, using the findings from Study 1, I developed items to quantitatively measure specific negative attributions and behaviors in response to desire discrepancies. Using a sample of 511 participants, I refined the factor structure of the Desire Discrepancy Attributions and Behaviors Scale and used a path analysis to examine how differentiation is associated with sexual desire both directly and indirectly through negative attributions, emotions, and behaviors (pursue-withdraw). Results indicated that an individual’s level of differentiation is positively associated with sexual desire and this link is significantly mediated by negative attributions and certain negative behaviors. The clinical implications and areas for future research based on the findings of this study are discussed.
Moore, Todd M. Jr. "Attributions of Negative Intent and Responsibility and Anger Arousal of Abusive and Nonabusive Males to Perceived Negative Dating Partner Behavior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36662.
Full textMaster of Science
New, Michelle Jennifer Claire. "Adolescent male victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse : maternal attributions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281717.
Full textMajor, Sarah A. "Maternal attributions : are these associated with appraisal of maternal parenting received or knowledge of child development?" Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249442.
Full textPearce, Zoe J., and n/a. "Attributions as a Mediator Between Attachment Style and Couple Relationship Outcomes." Griffith University. School of Psychology, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060301.154359.
Full textPearce, Zoe J. "Attributions as a Mediator Between Attachment Style and Couple Relationship Outcomes." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366540.
Full textThesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Psychology
Full Text
Cosenzo, Keryl Ann. "The Effect of Cardiovascular Reactivity and Negative Affect On The Responsibility Attributions of Hostile Men to Provocative Partner Behavior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45326.
Full textMaster of Science
Di, Francisco Maria Nezu Christine M. "Psychopathy, negative emotions of anger and depression, and causal attributions : relation to sexual aggression /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2006. http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860%20/839.
Full textGudleski, Gregory Daniel. "The Influence of Similarity to an Actor on an Observer's Attributions for Negative Behaviors." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626192.
Full textWright, Nolan Lincoln 1955. "Perceptions of a changing environment: Extension of dispositional rules for negative behaviors to negative events and their impacts on causal and dispositional attributions." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291583.
Full textJanbakhsh, Melika. "Making sense of negative outcomes : the role of perceived attributional stability." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34520.
Full textGallagher, Christopher. "Social Burden and Attributions of Hostility in Predicting Counterproductive Work Behavior." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1541096416412655.
Full textSelvey, Alicia M. "The Role of Self-Compassion as a Buffer Against Negative Cognitive Appraisals and Coping Strategies Among Stalking Victims." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1571922038918934.
Full textHrapczynski, Katie M. "The impact of couple therapy for abusive behavior on partners' negative attributions about each other, relationship satisfaction, communication behavior, and psychological abuse." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8317.
Full textThesis research directed by: Dept. of Family Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
Marks, Kate Una. "Pathways from pregnancy to early infancy : maternal emotion recognition and attributions for infant distress during pregnancy and infant negative emotionality at five weeks." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549334.
Full textRicherson, Lauren A. "BEHAVIORAL, COGNITIVE, AND AFFECTIVE PREDICTORS OF CHILD CONDUCT PROBLEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF PARENT-CHILD INTERACTIONS." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1193156476.
Full textO'Brien, Sharon Rosemary. "The psychosocial factors influencing aggressive driving behaviour." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44160/1/Sharon_O%27Brien_Thesis.pdf.
Full textKline, Erika Danielle. "Managing Negative Behavior in a Diverse Workplace." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1960.
Full textWILSON, 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.
Full textWilliams, Kate Victoria. "The causal role of appraisal biases upon negative repetitive thinking and emotional reactivity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23468.
Full textByrd, 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/.
Full textGoh, Angeline. "An attributional analysis of counterproductive work behavior (CWB) in response to occupational stress." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001895.
Full textGarcia, Danilo. "Attributionsstil och priming-effekt: En experimentell studie om välmående." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-863.
Full textThe aim of this study was to examine differences between happy and unhappy people, with respect to individuals interpretations, their attributonal style and in what way the priming effect is related to their attributional style and well-being. The participants were 74 senior high school and 21 undergraduate college students. Participants were asked to read a short story, some words were in bold type, and thereafter for their subjective perception of the words in bold type loading and memory of them in a recognition list. Attributional style was operationalized with an own constructed instrument. The results show that happy individuals interpreted more words as positive than negative in comparission with unhappy individuals. No correlation between participants well-being and global or attributional style for negative events were found. Both groups showed a tendency to be more optimistic than pessimstic for positive events. No differences were found for either memory or priming of loaded words. In sum the results suggest that happy individuals tend to conceive the world more positive.
Bagge, Johansson Jenny, and Carina Carlsson. "Skillnader och samband mellan attributioner och situationsspecifikt självförtroende : Kön och åldersaspekter, samt skillnader mellan idrottskategorier och positiva och negativa prestationer." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1039.
Full textSammanfattning
Syftet var att studera om personers attributioner skiljer sig åt mellan positiva och negativa prestationer. Dessutom undersöktes kön- och åldersaspekter, samt skillnader mellan icke-idrottare, motionärer, individuella och lagidrottare gällande attributionsstil och situationsspecifikt självförtroende. Vidare syftade arbetet till att studera samband mellan attributionsdimensionerna och situationsspecifikt självförtroende. Urvalet bestod av 115 försökspersoner i åldern 16 till 67 år. För att mäta attributioner användes Causal Dimension Scale – II (CDS-II; McAuley, Duncan, & Russell, 1992) och för att mäta situationspsecifikt självförtroende användes General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE; Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1995, ref. i Luszczynska, Scholz, & Schwarzer, 2005). Resultatet visade att positiva prestationer förklarades med inre och personligt kontrollerbara orsaker. Negativa prestationer förklarades med inre, instabila och personligt kontrollerbara orsaker. Icke-idrottare förklarade negativa prestationer med mer inre orsaker än motionärer och mer stabila orsaker än motionärer och individuella idrottare. Både positiva och negativa korrelationer uppvisades mellan attributionsdimensionerna och generellt situationsspecifikt självförtroende.
Hirai, Michiyo. "A Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Factors Related to Help-Seeking Attitudes for Psychological Disorder." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32784.
Full textMaster of Science
Hunter, Erik J. "Celebrity entrepreneurship and celebrity endorsement : similarities, differences and the effect of deeper engagement." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38902/1/Erik_Hunter_Thesis.pdf.
Full textFreeman, Wendy. "Parent attributions for spouse behavior during negative parent-child interactions." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1857.
Full textKivisto, Aaron J. "Attributions and Negative Affect as Moderators of PTSD Symptomatology and Aggression." 2008. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/393.
Full textyu, yeh chen, and 葉宸羽. "Mothers’ Beliefs of Corporal Punishment, Attributions for Children’s of Negative Behavior and Corporal Punishment–Take Preschoolers’ Mothers in Taoyuan County for example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48671672944620608627.
Full text輔仁大學
兒童與家庭學系碩士班
95
Abstract The main goals of the present study are to investigate the current situations of mothers’ belief of corporal punishment, attributions for children’s negative behavior and corporal punishment as well as the relationships among the above variables. The subjects of the present study are 601 mothers with children ages 3 to 6 selected from Taoyuan County. The results show that, first of all, mothers have middle level of belief of supporting corporal punishment, middle level of “internal factor” and “external factor” of attributions for children’s negative behavior. Mothers show low level of aspects of timing, intensity of corporal punishment, but have middle level of aspect of strength. In addition, mothers feel that children have middle level of response while being punished and corporal punishment have middle level of effect on children. Secondly, mothers’ belief of supporting corporal punishment is significantly correlated with aspects of timing, intensity, strength, responding and effect of corporal punishment. “External factor” of attribution for children’s negative behavior is not significantly correlated with aspects of timing, intensity, strength, responding and effect of corporal punishment. However, “internal factor” of attribution for children’s negative behavior is significantly correlated with aspects of strength and effect of corporal punishment. Finally, mothers’ supporting belief of corporal punishment has significant effects on aspects of timing, intensity, strength, responding and effect of corporal punishment, but attributions for children’s negative behavior have no significant effect on corporal punishment. Key words:corporal punishment, beliefs of corporal punishment, attributions for children’s negative behavior, preschoolers’ mothers
Godana, Andenet Hailie. "The role of enduring vulnerabilities, stressful life events and adaptive processes in newlyweds marital quality and adjustment." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26199.
Full textPsychology
Um, Nam-Hyun. "Consumers' response to negative information about a celebrity endorser." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4261.
Full texttext
Syu-SinLi and 李于欣. "The Tendency of Negative Attribution Style in Mothers of Children with ADHD." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61245996412077162132.
Full text國立成功大學
行為醫學研究所
101
The objective of this study was to investigate the attribution process to positive and negative children behavior for mothers of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by two paradigms. The first paradigm involves multidimensional attribution of positive and negative behavior of children. The second paradigm concerns making attribution to identical children behavior basing on information, such as consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency. The results showed that mothers of typically developing children exhibited positive attribution styles or person attributions, whereas mothers of children with ADHD exhibited negative attribution styles. Mothers of children with ADHD tended to make person attributions to negative children behavior (e.g., inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity; HI), but concluded situational attributions to prosocial behaviors. Furthermore, mothers of children with ADHD strongly maintained that typical children should exhibit self-control over HI behavior, whereas mothers of typical children adopted a tolerant attitude and perceived children with ADHD as incapable of self-control. The results of this study can be used by future studies on the effects of intervention for children with ADHD or studies related to neurophysiology. Highlights: A multidimensional questionnaire and information-attribution questionnaires were administered to investigate (a) the positive attribution styles exhibited by mothers of typical children and these mothers’ tendencies to make person attributions to positive and negative children behavior and (b) the negative attribution styles exhibited by mothers of children with ADHD and these mothers’ tendencies to make situational attributions to prosocial behaviors.
Wen, Yu-chia, and 溫育佳. "The Influence of Negative Customer-to-Customer Encounters on Service Evaluations: An Attributional Approach." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8669tz.
Full text東吳大學
企業管理學系
96
Service encounters often occur in the presence of multiple customers who share the servciescape with one another. It is evident that customers affect one another both indirectly, simply by being part of the same environment, and more directly, through specific interpersonal encounters (Martin, 1996). While there is some evidence that customer-to-customer interaction has a negative impact on customer satisfaction with the firm (e.g. Bitner et al., 1994; Groveand Fisk, 1997; Harris and Reynolds, 2003), none of these studies have focused specifically on answering why customers who are upset by other customers blame the firm rather than the specific misbehaving individuals, which in turn leads to customer dissatisfaction? The purpose of this study is to investigate this link, to predict what sort of causal attribution can lead to a firm’s assumed responsibility in case of other-customer failure. A 2 (controllability attribution: controllable vs. uncontrollable) × 2 (stability attribution: unstable vs. stable) × 2 (globality attribution: specific vs. global) between-subject factorial design was used to test our predictions. Subjects were exposed to a written scenario describing other-customer misbehavior in a restaurant. A restaurant context was chosen as appropriate for this study since real-life dysfunctional customer behavior is common in this industry (Harris and Reynolds, 2003). The results of this study show that: (1) Customers were less satisfied and less willing to repurchase, and were more likely to engaging in negative WOM, when they attributed the cause of other-customer failure to be more controllable than uncontrollable by the firm; (2) customers showed lower satisfaction, repurchase intentions, and higher negative WOM, when they attributed the cause of other-customer failure to be stable than unstable in the firm, and (3) globality attributions moderate the effects of controllability and stability attributions on customers’ service evaluations. That is, subjects in the specific condition reported lower satisfaction, repurchase intentions, and higher negative WOM, when they attributed the cause of other-customer failure to be controllable (stable) than uncontrollable (unstable) by the firm. Conversely, subjects in the global condition reported insignificant difference in the ratings of satisfaction, repurchase intentions, and negative WOM, whether the cause of other-customer failure be attributed as controllable (stable) or uncontrollable (unstable) to the firm.
Chang, Hsin-Ru, and 張新如. "The Relationship Between Perceptions of Supervisors' Workplace Incivility, Attributional Style, Negative Reciprocity, Organization-based Self-esteem, and Withholding Effort." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61899614478870926847.
Full text國立彰化師範大學
人力資源管理研究所
99
Abstract Workplace incivility has been found to be harmful to organizations and individuals. However, researchers know little about the mental processes of incivility victims. Thus, present study tested negative reciprocity and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) as mediators. Further, even within the same uncivil situation, workers with different attributional style may lead to different responses and behaviors. Therefore, present study examined attributional style as a moderator of the relationships between perceptions of supervisors' workplace incivility and negative reciprocity, organization-based self-esteem, ultimately, withholding effort. The subjects of the study are common enterprise supervisors and subordinates who are selected by purposive sampling method. We collected 480 pair questionnaires and there are 218 valid samples in the end. We used confirmation factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis to test our hypotheses. After hypotheses testing, we figured out: (1) Negative reciprocity mediated a moderating effect of hostile attributional style on the relationship between perceptions of supervisors' workplace incivility and withholding effort. (2) Organization-based self-esteem mediated a moderating effect of pessimistic attributional style on the relationship between perceptions of supervisors' workplace incivility and withholding effort. The implications of this study were: (1) Do not neglect the impact from supervisors’ incivility behavior. (2) According to victims' attributional style, give them different kinds of help. (3) Punishment is not the only way to solve the problem about withholding effort.
Wang, Min-Heng, and 王敏衡. "The Priming Effect of Negative Out-group Information for Cultural Knowledge Schema: Taking Attribution Task and Consumer Behavior as Criterion Variables." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11008812867728643660.
Full text國立臺灣大學
心理學研究所
100
The main purpose of this study is to examine whether negative out-group and positive in-group information both could activate in-group members’ cultural knowledge, and further influence their judgments to external-world information in the social context of low numerical distinctiveness. The past studies have proved that a specific group belonging to the majority or minority in an area affects the priming effect, and the minority group members would be more sensitive to in-group-related information. Contrarily, the issue which how to activate the majority group members’ in-group (cultural) knowledge schema is rarely to be paid attention. So, I hope that the current study could fulfill this research gap, and hypothesize that when perceiving outer threat or prejudice information, the majority group members’ in-group (cultural) knowledge schema would be activated, on the other hand, when perceiving positive in-group information would not have such effect. Two experiments are included, and the ethnic Chinese participants were recruited from Taiwan. The negative out-group information involved or not was manipulated, and attribution task and consumer behavioral intention were took as criterion variables in the experiment 1 and 2 respectively. The results confirmed the research hypothesis: the subject’ cultural schema was highly activated in the prejudiced group, however, the subjects in the positive in-group condition were not. The phenomenon was observed both in the attribution inclination and consumer behavioral intention, and gained acceptable effect size. Finally, the research limitations and future directions were discussed.
Liu, Chen-Wei, and 劉鎮瑋. "The impact of the responsibility attribution of the organization’s negative event on the employees’ moral emotions - the moderate role of the image of organization and gender." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29962246957668063642.
Full text清雲科技大學
經營管理研究所
100
This study explored the relationship between the responsibility attribution and the moral emotions (shame, guilt) that employees reacted to the negative event of the company, as well as the moderate role of the image of organization and gender. Based on the virtual cases, we used scenarios to manipulate the image of organization and responsibility attribution. We used the “division of continuing education students” of Ching Yun University as our experiment target. Based on the analysis of 256 effective returned samples, the findings are as following: First of all, employees with internal attribution tend to be higher moral emotions than employees with external attribution in the organization. Secondly, in terms of the image of organization, the relationship between internal attribution and employees’ moral emotions the organization with high image is stronger than organization with low image. And in terms of gender, male employees tend to be stronger than female employees. Finally, the more shameful employees feel, the higher intention tends to quit job and the less organizational citizenship behavior. However, the guiltier employees feel, the less intention tends to quit job and the more organizational citizenship behavior. We also discuss the implication of management.
King, Carmel Laura. "A psychometric analysis of the negative scale of the attributional style questionnaire with an eye towards investigating gender differences : subtitle a comparison of methods." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12809.
Full textCharrua, Vera Veríssimo Agostinho Sabino. "Pensamento contrafactual : ator e leitor em cenários negativos e positivos." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8098.
Full textO Pensamento Contrafactual é um tipo de pensamento espontâneo que nos permite procurar alternativas à nossa realidade, muitas vezes evidenciado através da expressão “e se…”, que ocorre frequentemente no dia-a-dia de qualquer sujeito (Byrne, 2016). Já em muitos estudos foi sugerido o impacto que certas variáveis como a posição do sujeito (ator vs. leitor) (Girotto e. al., 2007; Pighin et. al., 2011), ou o cenário/valência do resultado (sucesso/positivo vs. insucesso/negativo) (Roese & Olson, 1993a, 1993b) têm em diversas dimensões do PCF. Neste estudo acrescenta-se uma pergunta sobre este assunto: será que os sujeitos na posição de atores ou leitores têm pensamentos contrafactuais, perante um resultado positivo, idênticos aos que já se conhece perante um resultado negativo (Girotto e. al., 2007; Pighin et. al., 2011)? Assim, hipotetizou-se que, por um lado, deixaria de haver diferenças entre atores e leitores em cenário de sucesso, e, por outro, que o tipo de cenário teria apenas impacto em atores e não em leitores. Os resultados foram no sentido de ambas as hipóteses. Adicionalmente, foram propostas outras duas hipóteses: uma diz respeito à relação entre a valência de resultado e à estrutura do PCF (quanto aos atores, seria esperado que em cenário positivo fossem elaborados contrafactuais de estrutura subtrativa e em cenário negativo fossem elaborados contrafactuais de estrutura aditiva, não sendo esperadas diferenças entre os leitores); e outra diz respeito à relação entre a valência de resultado e o tipo de atribuição causal (interna vs, externa) (era esperado que, em grupos de atores, se atribuísse o sucesso a fatores internos e o insucesso a fatores externos, não se esperando diferenças entre os leitores). Os resultados relativos a estas últimas hipóteses não foram no sentido do esperado.
Counterfactual thought is a type of thought which allows us to search for mental alternatives to our present reality. It’s spontaneous and frequent in our everyday lives, and it is frequently expressed through a “what if…” conjunction (Byrne, 2016). There have been many studies in which it was suggested that variables such as role (actor vs reader) (Girotto e. al., 2007; Pighin et. al., 2011) or scenario/outcome valence (positive vs. negative) (Roese & Olson, 1993a, 1993b) have impact on certain dimensions of counterfactual though. In this study, we add up yet another question about this issue: do both actors and readers have the same counterfactual thoughts for both negative and positive scenarios? Thereby, we hypothesised that there would be no differences between roles on a positive scenario, and that the difference in scenario would only impact on actors but not on readers. The results went accordingly to the proposed hypotheses. Additionally, we proposed yet another two hypotheses regarding outcome valence and the structure of counterfactual thought (additive vs. subtractive) (within the actor groups, it was expected that on a positive scenario, subjects would elaborate more subtractive counterfactual thoughts and on a negative scenario, subjects would elaborate more additive counterfactual thoughts, not expecting any differences between the two groups of readers), and outcome valence and causal attribution (it was expected, within the actor groups, that success were attributed to internal elements and unsuccess attributed to external elements; within readers, there were no differences to be expected, no matter the outcome valence). The results concerning these last hypotheses didn’t go accordingly to that which we proposed.