Attribution of responsibility for alcohol-related offenses

Psychological Reports

Volumn 80, Issue 3 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1159-1165

  Kelly, Katherine T ^a   Campbell, James L ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ATTITUDE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 0031157638     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1997.80.3c.1159     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. ANDERSON, C. A. (1983) The causal structure of situations: the generation of plausible attributions as a function of type of event situation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 19, 185-203.
2. ANDREWS, B., & BREWIN, C. R. (1990) Attributions of blame for marital violence: a study of antecedents and consequences. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 52, 757-767.
3. BENSON, M. (1989) Attributional measurement techniques: classification and comparison of attributions for measuring causal dimensions. Journal of Social Psychology, 129, 307-323.
4. CALHOUN, L. G., SELBY, J. W., CANN, A., & KELLER, T. (1978) The effects of victim physical attractiveness and sex of respondent on social reactions to victims of rape. British Journal of Social Clinical Psychology, 17, 191-192.
5. CANN, A., CALHOUN, L. G., & SELBY, J. W. (1979) Attributing responsibility to the victim of rape: influence of information regarding past sexual experience. Human Relations, 32, 57-67.
6. CRITCHLOW, B. (1983) Blaming the booze: the attribution of responsibility for drunken behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 451-473.
7. DEJOY, D. M. (1989) An attribution theory perspective on alcohol impaired driving. Health Education Quarterly, 16, 359-372.
8. DIETRICH, D., BERKOWITZ, L., KADUSHIN, A., & MCGLOIN, J. (1990) Some factors influencing abusers' justification of their child abuse. Child Abuse and Neglect, 14, 337-345.
9. HARVEY, J. H., & WEARY, G. (1981) Perspectives on attributional processes. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown.
10. JONES, E. E., KANOUSE, D. E., KELLEY, H. H., NISBETT, R. E., VALINS, S., & WEINER, B. (1972) Attribution: perceiving the causes of behavior. Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
11. JÖRESKOG, K. G., & SÖRBOM, D. (1989) LISREL VII user's guide. Mooresville, IN: Scientific Software.
12. MCAULEY, E., DUNCAN, T. E., & RUSSELL, D. W. (1992) Measuring causal attributions: the Revised Causal Dimension Scale (CDSII). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 560-573.
13. MYERSON, A. (1940) Alcohol: a study of social ambivalence. Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1, 13-20.
14. SOBELL, L. C., & SOBELL, M. B. (1973) Drunkenness, a "special circumstance" in crimes of violence: sometimes. International Journal of the Addictions, 10, 869-882.
15. WEINER, B. (1979) A theory of motivation for some classroom experiences. Journal of Educational Psychology, 71, 1-29.
16. WEINER, B. (1983) Some methodological pitfalls in attribution research. Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 530-543.
17. WEINER, B. (1995) Judgments of responsibility: a foundation for a theory of social conduct. New York: Guilford.
18. WEINER, B., NIERENBERG, R., & GOLDSTEIN, M. (1976) Social learning (locus of control) versus attributional (causal stability) interpretations of expectancy of success. Journal of Personality, 44, 52-68.