Can Kinderman and Bentalls' suggestions for a personal and situational attributions questionnaire be used to examine all aspects of attributional style?
L. Day et J. Maltby, Can Kinderman and Bentalls' suggestions for a personal and situational attributions questionnaire be used to examine all aspects of attributional style?, PERS INDIV, 29(6), 2000, pp. 1047-1055
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
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