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Counselor trainees' explanations of behavior: Attributions to traits, situations, and interaction
Author(s) -
Donnan Huoh H.,
Pipes Randolph B.
Publication year - 1985
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(198509)41:5<729::aid-jclp2270410524>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , social psychology , clinical psychology
Counselor trainees views of generic causes of behavior were investigated. Thirty‐seven counselor education graduate students were asked to assign validity ratings to seven possible explanations of what determines behavior. Participants were asked to make judgments either in reference to their own behavior or to someone else's behavior. The students assigned high validity ratings to an “interaction” explanation for behavior. Further, consistent with previous research findings that concern attributional processes, when counselor trainees explained their own behavior, they assigned relatively high ratings to external causes; when explaining others behavior, they assigned relatively high validity ratings to internal causes.