Attributional Style of Adult Children of Alcoholics

• Main Author: Coxsey, Stephen Andrew
• Other Authors: Martin, Sander, 1939-
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 1989
• Subjects: attributional style; adults with alcoholic parents; adults with depressed parents; Adult children of alcoholics > Psychology.; Attribution (Social psychology)
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500907/

115 undergraduate students were surveyed to see if attributional style would be different for individuals with alcoholic parents, depressed parents, or neither factor. Subjects were sorted into the three groups based on their responses to a family history questionnaire. Each subject filled out two attributional style questionnaires, the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and the Attributional Style Assessment Test (ASAT-II). The three groups did not differ on attributional style for interpersonal, noninter- personal, or general situations. Within the adult children of alcoholics group, subjects reported that their successes in interpersonal situations were due to their strategy and effort, rather than ability, more so than for noninterpersonal successes.