Intermediate-level indices of attributional style: Are they necessary?

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 345-354

  Maher, Karen J ^a   Nordstrom, Cynthia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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