Can Kinderman and Bentalls' suggestions for a personal and situational attributions questionnaire be used to examine all aspects of attributional style?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1047-1055

  Day, L ^a   Maltby, J ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution style; Depression; Global; Internal; Questionnaire; Stable

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034388739     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00252-4     Document Type: Article

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