Relationship between attributional style and personality traits androle of gender differences
Keywords:
Attributional style, personality types, neuroticAbstract
A number of studies in the field of psychology found that negative and positive attributional styles leads different
cognitive differences. Also, personality related studies found neurotic and extrovert types have found similar
cognitive d ifferences as in attributional styles. Although, the related literature shows similarities in terms of
empirical findings, the studies about the relationship between these concepts are sparse. Importantly, as we
observe gender differences may lead distinct influences in emotion, cognition as well as in daily life, it is
important to include role of gender differences in the potential relationship between attributional style and
personality types. Therefore, in the present study we include gender differences as well to investigate
relationships between these concepts. Overall, we aim at investigating relationship between attributional style
and personality by putting into account gender differences. To do that, 110 (50 Women, 60 Men) were employed
to fill att ributional style questionnaire and Eysenck personality questionnaire. As a result, negative attributional
style was positively correlated with neurotic personality whereas positive attributional style was positively
correlated with extravert personality. T hese correlations were stronger in men than in women. However, no
significant correlations were found between attributional styles and psychotic personality. We concluded that
there is a potential relationship between attributional styles and neurotic and extravert personality types and this
relationship may be moderated by gender differences as evident by strong correlation between this concepts in
men.
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