TY - JOUR
T1 - Attitudes, Values, and Attributions
T2 - Explanations of unemployment.
AU - Feather, N. T.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - Two studies demonstrate statistically reliable correlations between attribution measures and the attitudes and values that people hold. Subjects in both studies rated 27 explanations of unemployment in regard to their importance as causes of youth unemployment, and subscales were derived on the basis of a factor analysis. In Study 1, scores on these subscales were consistently related in the predicted direction to both general conservatism assessed by the Wilson and Patterson (1968)Conservatism Scale and to conservative voting preference for a sample of 265 university students. In Study 2, scores on the derived scales were related in the predicted direction to the relative importance of some of the terminal and instrumental values from Form D of the Rokeach Value Survey (Rokeach, 1973) for a sample of 334 high-school students. The results also indicated a number of sex differences and social class differences in the variables that were assessed. The major findings support the assumption that causal attributions for events are not simply the products of neutral information processing, but are linked to the cognitive-affective system.
AB - Two studies demonstrate statistically reliable correlations between attribution measures and the attitudes and values that people hold. Subjects in both studies rated 27 explanations of unemployment in regard to their importance as causes of youth unemployment, and subscales were derived on the basis of a factor analysis. In Study 1, scores on these subscales were consistently related in the predicted direction to both general conservatism assessed by the Wilson and Patterson (1968)Conservatism Scale and to conservative voting preference for a sample of 265 university students. In Study 2, scores on the derived scales were related in the predicted direction to the relative importance of some of the terminal and instrumental values from Form D of the Rokeach Value Survey (Rokeach, 1973) for a sample of 334 high-school students. The results also indicated a number of sex differences and social class differences in the variables that were assessed. The major findings support the assumption that causal attributions for events are not simply the products of neutral information processing, but are linked to the cognitive-affective system.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.48.4.876
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.48.4.876
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000003601
VL - 48
SP - 876
EP - 889
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
SN - 0022-3514
IS - 4
ER -