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The Interpersonal Attribution of Responsibility and the Will of Helping

ZHANG Ai-qing, LIU Hua-shan   

  1. Department of Psychology of Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
  • Online:2002-10-15 Published:2002-10-15

Abstract: Interpersonal attribution of responsibility is a new field that connects attribution researches with judgments of behavioral responsibility.It gives a new angle of view to the judgment of behavior responsibility by applying attributional theory to the analysis of responsibility of failed behavior.This research tested the relationships between attributional controllability and the will of helping,204 subjects attended this experiment,and two structural equation models which reflected the relationships among controllability,affect,responsibility and helping were set up.EQS was used to test the models and the data fitted both Weiner's model and ours well.The results suggested that the relationships between interpersonal attribution of responsibility and the will of helping were that attributional controllability contributed the judgment of responsibility and the response of affects,and then linked with the will of helping; and in this process,judgment of responsibility and the response of affect had a two-way interrelationship.Controllability had a close relationship with judgment of responsibility,but they were of different variables.These results had the effects across situations.

Key words: Attributional controllability, Judgment of responsibility, the will of helping, Structural equations models

CLC Number: 

  • B848.4
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