Social Behavior and Personality, January 1st, 2001
This study tested the hypothesis that individuals from a collectivist culture explain life events using more contextual causes than do those from an individualistic culture. Undergraduates' causal attributions about positive and negative life events were assessed in India (n = 195) and Canada (n = 162) using a revised Attributional Style Questionnaire. Analyses revealed the India participants generated more contextual causes for events, but also had a stronger selfserving bias than did the Canada participants. Further, each cultural group viewed achievement events as more controllable than int...
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