Ambiguity in the internal/external distinction in causal attribution

White, Peter A.

doi:10.1016/0022-1031(91)90015-x

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“…The main strength of the study was the development of a new measure of attributional style grounded in attribution theory (White, 1991). In line with continuum approaches to psychosis (Claridge, 1987), the current study found, using this new measure, that persecutory ideation in nonclinical population shares common attributional biases with psychotic disorders.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…However, as Bentall et al (2001) argue, events that people encounter in their everyday lives happen in a context, where various potential causes are available but differently attended to, and weighted in importance. This is the realm of attribution theory, which investigates the way in which information in the environment is assessed when people are trying to understand the causes of specific events by evaluating the relative 90 FORNELLS-AMBROJO AND GARETY strength of potential causes (White, 1989). Both the availability of causal explanations in the environment and accessibility of stored knowledge contribute to causal attributions, with cognitive strategies such as the availability heuristic being used to understand events in the face of ambiguous information (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974).…”

Section: The Rationale For a New Measure Of Attributions In Paranoiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The IPSAQ aimed to overcome the lack of specificity of the internalÁexternal dimension of the ASQ (Peterson et al, 1982), which had been shown to be unreliable (White, 1991) by measuring instead three attributional loci: internal (oneself), personal-external (another person), and situational-external (circumstances or chance).…”

Section: The Internal Personal and Situational Attributions Questiomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Attributional biases in paranoia: The development and validation of the Achievement and Relationships Attributions Task (ARAT)

Fornells-Ambrojo

2009

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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Attributional biases in paranoia: The development and validation of the Achievement and Relationships Attributions Task (ARAT)

Fornells-Ambrojo

2009

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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“…This realization has led to the development of a multidimensional attributional style (Abramson, Seligman and Teasdale, 1978;Crittenden, 1989;Curren, Folkes and Steckel, 1992;Fletcher et al, 1986;Kelley, 1967Kelley, , 1973Peterson, Maier and Seligman, 1993;Weiner, 1979;White, 1991;Williams, Lees-Haley and Brown, 1993). Abramson, Seligman and Teasdale (1978) created a multidimensional scale to measure the three dimensions of causal explanation: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific.…”

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The Role of Attributional Explanatory Style in the Perceived Outcomes of Entrepreneurial Venture Failure

Askim-Lovseth

Feinberg

2012

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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The study tests the application of combining attribution theory and the explanatory style models of Abramson, Seligman and Teasdale (1978) and Weiner (1979Weiner ( , 1986 to entrepreneurial situations, specifically venture failure. Data support the conclusion that attributional explanatory style does relate to the perceived outcomes of a failed venture, specifically, the four areas of risk identified by Liles (1974) as being influenced by the entrepreneurial startup-financial well-being, career opportunities, family relations, and self-esteem. Because of the possible difficulty in abstracting singular causal relationship concerning attribution, overall explanatory style may be more influential for how individuals interpret events and behaviors and make causal explanations for answering why things happen. In this study, an overall explanatory style of external, unstable, specific, and uncontrollable attributions was associated with more positive perceived outcomes related to all the four areas of risk in the context of a failed entrepreneurial venture.RéSUMé. Cette étude examine l'application conjointe de la théorie de l'attribution et des modèles explicatifs d'Abramson, Seligman et Teasdale (1978) et Weiner (1979) à des situations entrepreneuriales, plus pré-cisément l'échec des entreprises. Les données confirment que le modèle explicatif de l'attribution est lié aux résultats perçus de l'échec d'une entreprise, plus précisément aux quatre domaines de risque identifiés par Liles (1974) qui sont influencés par le démarrage d'une entreprise : le bien-être financier, les possibilités de carrière, les relations familiales, et l'estime de soi. À cause de la difficulté possible d'établir un lien de causalité simple au sujet de l'attribution, le modèle explicatif général pourrait avoir plus d'influence sur la façon dont les individus interprètent des évènements et des comportements et élaborent des explications causales en réponse à pourquoi certaines choses se produisent. Dans cette étude, un modèle explicatif général d'attributions externes, instables, particulières et incontrôlables était associé à une perception positive des résultats obtenus pour ce qui est des quatre domaines de risque dans le contexte de l'échec d'une entreprise.

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“…Autores como White (1991) o Levenson (1974) han distinguido tres tipos de locus atribucional en la dimensión de intemalidad: locus interno, locus extemo-personal (atribuir la causa de lo que sucede a la acción u omisión de otros) y locus extemo-situacional (atribuir las causas de lo que sucede a las circunstancias o al azar). El hecho de que la subescala de inter-nalidad del ASQ suela presentar bajos índices de fiabilidad en la dimensión intemalidad (Reivich, 1995) propició el desarrollo de una nueva estrategia de evaluación de patrones de razonamiento causal, el Internal, Personal and SituationalAttributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ; Kinderman y Bentall, 1996a) que además de solventar el problema de la fiabilidad permite distinguir los tres tipos de locus propuestos.…”

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Atribuciones causales explícitas e implícitas en el delirio: estudio de su especificidad en delirios paranoides y no paranoides

Valverde¹,

Gálvez²,

Nieto-Moreno³

et al. 2006

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Resumen: En este trabajo se estudian sesgos cognitivos atribucionales en pacientes delirantes. Para analizar el estilo atribucional, se emplean tareas de evaluación de razonamiento causal explícitas (IPSAQ) e implícitas (PIT) en una muestra de 40 pacientes delirantes (19 paranoides y 21 no paranoides). Los resultados indican la presencia de sesgos atribucionales (i.e. extemalizante y personalizante) en pacientes delirantes con independencia del tipo de delirio cuando se emplea una medida de evaluación explícita. Sin embargo, el patrón atribucional implícito de los pacientes con delirios paranoides es diferente al mostrado por los pacientes no paranoides. Se discuten las implicaciones teóricas y clínicas de estos hallazgos.Palabras clave: Delirios, paranoide, sesgos cognitivos, atribuciones, razonamiento causal, tareas explícitas, tareas implícitas. Explicit and implicit causal attributions in delusions: A study ofits specificity in paranoid deltisions vs non paranoid delusionsAbstract: In this paper the presence of atributional cognitive biases in delusional patients is studied. Explicit (IPSAQ) and implicit (PIT) attributional measures have been used to analyze the attributional style in a sample of 40 delusional patients (19 paranoid patients and 21 non paranoid patients). The results showed the presence of attributional biases (i.e. externalizing and personalizing) independently of the delusional content when an explicit task was used. Compared to non paranoid patients, the paranoid group showed a different attributional style when it was assessed through an implicit task. Theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed.

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Ambiguity in the internal/external distinction in causal attribution

Cited by 54 publications

References 15 publications

Attributional biases in paranoia: The development and validation of the Achievement and Relationships Attributions Task (ARAT)

Attributional biases in paranoia: The development and validation of the Achievement and Relationships Attributions Task (ARAT)

The Role of Attributional Explanatory Style in the Perceived Outcomes of Entrepreneurial Venture Failure

Atribuciones causales explícitas e implícitas en el delirio: estudio de su especificidad en delirios paranoides y no paranoides

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