A Social-Cognitive Model of Entrepreneurship Failure: Beyond Attributional Style

The structure of attributional style: Cognitive styles and optimism¬タモpessimism bias in the Attributional Style Questionnaire

Explanatory style models of optimism focus on three aspects of attributions for the causes of positive and negative events: stability, pervasiveness, and internal–external control. These three aspects are predicted to cluster within each valence forming explanatory-style factors and these in turn are predicted to correlate negatively, in line with attributional accounts of depression. Here we r...

Attributional style and depression.

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined whether attributional style (an individual's explanation of why events happen) is a genetically influenced vulnerability factor for depression. AIMS To investigate whether attributional style is an enduring vulnerability trait for recurrent depression. METHOD As part of the Cardiff Depression Study, we interviewed 108 people with depression and their sib...

Attributional Style and Disability Outcome

Attributional Style and Disability Outcome

Disability is both a very personal and social issue. In 1999, The World Health Organization (WHO) published their latest revisions to the ICIDH-2. This document includes the latest conceptual developments in understanding the structure and process of disabling conditions. The document highlights that disability outcome occurs within a dynamic system characterized by the impairment itself, envir...

Attributional style predicts causes of negative life events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire.

The causes cited by 218 participants for the hypothetical positive and negative life events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and the dimensional ratings of the causes were examined to determine the match between the dimensional and categorical definitions of attributional style. Optimists (n = 105) and pessimists (n = 113) used different types of causes to explain the negative ASQ...