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Dependency, self‐criticism and attributional style: A reexamination
Author(s) -
Bagby R. Michael,
Segal Zindel,
Schuller Deborah R.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1995.tb01439.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , personality , dependency (uml) , criticism , self criticism , style (visual arts) , developmental psychology , social psychology , art , literature , systems engineering , archaeology , engineering , history
The relationship between dependency and self‐criticism personality dimensions, as measured by the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ), and attributions to content‐specific (affiliative, achievement) hypothetical outcome domains on the Expanded Attributional Style Questionnaire (EASQ) was examined. Dependency did not correlate with either affiliative or achievement domains, whereas self‐criticism correlated with both. Replicating previous findings there was also no evidence of differential causal assignment across the attributional dimensions. These results add to an accumulating literature suggesting that the DEQ might not be measuring two independent personality types.