Development and validation of an attributional style questionnaire for adolescents.

Abstract

We describe the development and psychometric characteristics of a new version of the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ; Seligman, Abramson, Semmell, & Von Baeyer, 1979)--a version called the Attributional Style Questionnaire for Adolescents (ASQ-A)--using 3 samples (Ns = 547, 438, and 240) of Spanish secondary school students. In Study 1, the initial pool of 87 items was reduced to 54. Study 2 further analyzed the 54 scale items and revealed that the Internality, Stability, and Globality subscale scores had good reliability, good factorial construct validity, and satisfactory associations with maladaptive mood ratings. In Study 3, the regression analyses showed good and specific predictive validities of ASQ-A subscales for the attributions that the adolescents made about a particular real-life stressful situation. Study 4 showed that over an 8-month period the changes in the Stability and Globality subscales depended on the intensity of stressful life events experienced in this period. Overall, the studies revealed that the new ASQ-A served as an appropriate instrument to assess attributional style in adolescents.

Estudio de la validez de la versión española del Cuestionario de Estilo Atribucional ante Situaciones Negativas [Study as to the validity of the Spanish version of Attributional Style Questionnaire for Negative Situations]

“…Sin embargo, sí son consistentes con los resultados obtenidos en otros trabajos que han empleado versiones del ASQ con más items, en los que sí se encuentran las tres dimensiones atribucionales (Joiner y Metalsky, 1999;Rodríguez-Naranjo y Caño, 2010). Estos resultados inconsistentes en relación con la dimensión de internalidad, junto con su más baja fi abilidad, cuando se entiende como consistencia interna, que además no sólo se encuentra en la versión original del ASQ y su adaptación, sino también en otros cuestionarios, incluso con diferentes formatos, han hecho que algunos autores sugieran que esta circunstancia no se debe a problemas de medida de los cuestionarios, sino que se puede deber a que las atribuciones de internalidad pueden ser inconsistentes de por sí (Joiner y Metalsky, 1999;Rodríguez-Naranjo y Caño, 2010).…”

Effect of negative attributions on depressive symptoms of patients with coronary heart disease after controlling for physical functional impairment

“…As in other studies (Bennett & Elliot, 2005; Rodr ıguez-Naranjo & Caño, 2010), we have also found that internality is not related to depressive symptoms. Psychometric studies have shown low internal consistency between the items of the internality dimension, using different questionnaires and distinct formats, which has led to suggest that this low internal consistency is not due to problems in measuring instruments but to low consistency of internality attributions themselves (Joiner & Metalsky, 1999;Rodr ıguez-Naranjo & Caño, 2010).…”

Stressful Life Events and Physical and Psychological Health: Mediating Effects of Differentiation of Self in a Spanish Sample

“…The negative perception of SLEs score is computed by summing the impact ratings of those events designated as negative by the participant within the preceding 12 months (i.e., those events rated −3 to 0) while removing any events that were evaluated as positive. The Spanish version of LES is derived from Rodríguez‐Naranjo and Caño's () adaptation, which obtained a good level of reliability for the negative perception of SLEs score (Cronbach's α = .82). In the present study, the negative perception of SLEs revealed good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = .84).…”