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The Role of Depression and Sex Differences in Attributions Related to Problematic Social Situations.
Peer reviewedCalhoun, James F; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Evaluated the hypothesis that depressed students would tend to make more internal and stable attributions of causality in potentially problematic social situations than nondepressed students. Depressed and nondepressed students rated vignettes for internal/external causality and along a stable/unstable dimension. Results supported the hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education
Kreutzer, Jeffrey S.; And Others – 1980
For many years researchers have investigated the relationship between alcohol consumption and human aggression. A "policy-capturing" methodology was used to determine how judgments of responsibility for aggressive behavior are influenced by information about a person's alcohol consumption, sex, and degree of injury to a victim. Male subjects (N=8)…
Descriptors: Aggression, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Coll, Joan H.; Lega, Leonor – 1981
Conceptual level is a personal characteristic that describes persons on a developmental hierarchy of increasing conceptual complexity, self-responsibility, and independence. The relationship between gender and conceptual level was explored in a group of 70 male and 63 female college students. The This I Believe Test (TIB) was administered to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedSanders, Glenn S. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Discussed whether similarity affects the relationship between comparison and other-evaluation. Subjects read about an emergency, estimated their reaction, and evaluated a target who failed to help. Results showed increasing discrepancy between self and other's reactions led to more negative evaluations if self and target were the same sex.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Differences
Kanner, Allen D. – 1982
Previous research has shown that employed men are generally healthier than employed women, due in part to the dual role of women as workers and homemakers. To examine this explanation, the impact of four types of daily hassles (minor stressful events) was compared on two adaptational outcomes, psychological symptoms and health, for working men and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attribution Theory, Employee Attitudes, Employees
Download full textGreenspoon, Joel; Lamal, P. A. – 1979
Although research suggests that men and women are perceived as differing significantly on a number of traits or characteristics, little research relates these traits to observable behaviors. The trait-characteristic issue, when carried over to employment, serves to justify discrimination against women. Research on attribution theory also supports…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior, Correlation, Employment
