Can Kinderman and Bentalls' suggestions for a personal and situational attributions questionnaire be used to examine all aspects of attributional style?

The aim of the present study was to apply suggestions made by Kinderman and Bentall (1996) to the accurate measurement of attributional style. Three h undred undergraduate students (140 males, 160 females) completed the origin al, and an amended version of the Attribution Style Questionnaire, two meas ures of depression, and a number of 1-item measures of Attribution Style. T he findings suggest that the amended version of the Attribution Style Quest ionnaire shows improved reliability and correlational statistics with depre ssion and with 1-item measure of constructs, over the original version of t he Attribution Style Questionnaire. Together, these findings suggest that s eparating out all aspects of attribution style could contribute to clearer measurement of attribution style. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.