Abstract
Interpersonal attribution of responsibility is a new field that connects attribution researches with judgments of behavior responsibility. It gives a new angle of view to analyze the relationships between behavior responsibility and the following behavior reactions. This research tested the relationships among causal locus, controllability, judgment of responsibility, affect response and behavior reactions. 376 subjects attended this experiment, the results are: (1) Internal controllable cause of behavior elicited high responsibility judgment, severe reprimand and low console; internal uncontrollable and unstable cause elicited low responsibility, low reprimand and high console. (2) The relationships among causal attribution, judgment of responsibility and behavior reactions should be: Locus and controllability → responsibility → affect response → reprimand and console. Two structural equation models were set up to test the theoretical hypotheses by EQS. (3) Students, especially female students were inclined to think the failing behavior was caused by controllable reasons, teachers tended to use console strategy to students that failed.
| Keywords: | attributional dimensions; judgment of responsibility; behavioral reaction strategies |
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