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Attribution

The assignment of cause. For example, if one attributes a statement to a CEO, one says the CEO made the statement. Likewise, if one attributes a market bounce to GDP growth, one says the GDP growth caused the bounce.

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Studies confirming attributional styles as a risk factor in reactions to victims add to the overall construct validity of the attributional theory of helping behavior and propose attributional style as a moderator variable.

An Individual Differences Measure of Attributions Affecting Helping Behavior

Preliminary examination of a cartoon-based hostile attributional bias measure for urban African American boys.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder dimensions and aggression: The moderating role of hostile bias and sex

Maladaptive attributional thinking is characterized by the belief that failure is due to stable, internal causes such as low ability and success is a result of unstable, external causes such as luck (Robertson, 2000).

A NEW PERSPECTIVE: Spontaneous Character Education Using Positive Causal Attribution Training

Parental perceptions and understandings of their children are essential for belief formation which was focused in our study to obtain qualitative information about parents' attributional styles (Mesurado and Richaud de Minzi, 2013).

Are Siblings Different as 'Day and Night'? Parents' Perceptions of Nature vs. Nurture

An important variable that has not been properly taken into account in the literature regarding the relationship between locus of control and maltreatment, and between the latter and attachment, is the impact on these associations and intersections that can result from being exposed to violence and neglect by the parents for longer or shorter periods; that is, it has never been investigated to what extent the experiences of maltreatment suffered over time can be configured as a cumulative trauma which can affect the attachment working models, the attributional processes and their intersection.

Locus of control in maltreated children: The impact of attachment and cumulative trauma

Verbal Abuse and Internalizing Problems in Early Adolescence: Negative Attributional Style as Mediator

Factors Influencing Mental Illness in Early Adolescence

(35) See Benforado & Hanson, "Attributional Divide", supra note 11 at 314.

Overcoming the dispositionism of aboriginal rights in Canada: culture in the mind versus life in the world

In addition, it was predicted that team identification would moderate the attributional bias of these groups of fans for both sets of attributes.

Destined to succeed? Team identification and the attributional bias of NFL fans

Keywords: college, attributional style, substance use, health risk behaviors, HIV, STIs

The influence of attributional style on substance use and risky sexual behavior among college students

A theory has been considered over the past two decades is attributional style or the way people explaining everyday events, especially in stressful situations that could have an important role in mental health [32].

Predict depression in college students through attributional style and religious orientation

"There is a theory that certain individuals may have a cognitive vulnerability to depression and anxiety based on their attributional style, or way of explaining the causes of events," explains Joel Pava, PhD, Director of Psychotherapy Service at MGH's Depression Clinical and Research Program.

How to stop feeling guilty: changing how you perceive events can help you reduce feelings such as guilt, shame, regret, and self-blame