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Causal Attributions of Ghanaian Industrial Workers for Accident Occurrence
Author(s) -
Gyekye Seth Ayim,
Salminen Simo
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb01979.x
Subject(s) - attribution , blame , causality (physics) , psychology , social psychology , accident (philosophy) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
This study confirms the self‐defensive attribution hypothesis on causal attributions of accidents in Ghana's work environment. In this investigation, Ghanaian industrial workers and their supervisors assigned causality to industrial accidents, and their responses were compared. The results showed that the victims attributed their accidents to external causes to a greater extent than did the supervisors, and to internal causes to a lesser extent than did the supervisors. This finding reflects the tendency toward self‐protective bias, whereby people tend to project blame for their failures onto external circumstances.