Subjective Perception and Causal Attributions for Poverty in Italy

Social workers' and service users causal attributions for poverty.

Poverty and its etiology have been major subjects of concern for the social work profession throughout its history. This study focused on four causal attributions for poverty: social-structural, motivational, psychological, and fatalistic. More specifically, it examined the differences between social workers' and service users' perceptions of the causes of poverty. Participants were 401 service...

Help-Seeking and Causal Attributions for Helping

Olsson, I. I. 2002. Help-seeking and Causal Attributions for Helping. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 112. 93 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91554-5229-9. This thesis investigates help-seeking and effects of help-seeking on causal attributions for helping (i.e., what people believe caused help or lack of help). Additionally...

Precompetitive state anxiety, objective and subjective performance, and causal attributions in competitive swimmers.

This study investigated the nature of the relationship between precompetitive state anxiety (CSAI-2C), subjective (race position) and objective (satisfaction) performance outcomes, and self-rated causal attributions (CDS-IIC) for performance in competitive child swimmers. Race position, subjective satisfaction, self-confidence, and, to a lesser extent, cognitive state anxiety (but not somatic s...

Somatoform disorders and causal attributions in patients with suspected allergies: Do somatic causal attributions matter?

OBJECTIVE Somatic causal illness attributions are being considered as potential positive criteria for somatoform disorders (SFDs) in DSM-V. The aim of this study was to investigate whether patients diagnosed with SFDs tend towards a predominantly somatic attribution style. METHODS We compared the causal illness attributions of 48 SFD and 149 non-somatoform disorder patients, in a sample of pa...

The Construction of Subjective Experience : Memory Attributions