The structure of attributional style: Cognitive styles and optimism-pessimism bias in the Attributional Style Questionnaire

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-85

  Liu, Caimei ^a,b   Bates, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Open University of China   (China)

Author keywords

Attributional style questionnaire; Explanatory style; Optimism; Pessimism; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898636899     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.03.022     Document Type: Article

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