Relationship between attributional style and personality traits androle of gender differences

Rahmi Saylik
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Rahmi Saylik: Muş Alparslan University

International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies, 2017, vol. 2, issue 2, 17-25

Abstract: A number of studies in the field of psychology found that negative and positive attributional styles leads differentcognitive differences. Also, personality related studies found neurotic and extrovert types have found similarcognitive d ifferences as in attributional styles. Although, the related literature shows similarities in terms ofempirical findings, the studies about the relationship between these concepts are sparse. Importantly, as weobserve gender differences may lead distinct influences in emotion, cognition as well as in daily life, it isimportant to include role of gender differences in the potential relationship between attributional style andpersonality types. Therefore, in the present study we include gender differences as well to investigaterelationships between these concepts. Overall, we aim at investigating relationship between attributional styleand personality by putting into account gender differences. To do that, 110 (50 Women, 60 Men) were employedto fill att ributional style questionnaire and Eysenck personality questionnaire. As a result, negative attributionalstyle was positively correlated with neurotic personality whereas positive attributional style was positivelycorrelated with extravert personality. T hese correlations were stronger in men than in women. However, nosignificant correlations were found between attributional styles and psychotic personality. We concluded thatthere is a potential relationship between attributional styles and neurotic and extravert personality types and thisrelationship may be moderated by gender differences as evident by strong correlation between this concepts inmen.

Keywords: Attributional style; personality types; neurotic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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