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Clinicians' judgments of female clients' causal attributions
Author(s) -
Compas Bruce E.,
Adelmen Howard S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198104)37:2<456::aid-jclp2270370246>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , causality (physics) , locus of control , social psychology , clinical psychology , quantum mechanics , physics
Presented clinicalpsychologists ( N = 400) with statemetns of female client attributions for presenting probelems with locus of causality varied, Clinicians' jugdments of clients wer investigated through their evaluatins of the a curacy of these attributions. While clinician did not difer in estimate of accuracy based on whether attribution were internal or external, female clinicians were more likely than males to judge client attirbutions as accurate.