Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ)

The ASQ is a 48-item questionnaire that measures an individual’s explanatory style (positive versus negative). The questionnaire is made up of 12 hypothetical events (6 good and 6 bad), each followed by 4 questions: (1) a free-response question about the cause of the hypothetical event, (2) a question about whether the event has an internal or external cause (i.e., how much respondents believe they themselves are responsible for the event) (3) a question about whether the event has a stable or unstable cause (i.e., how much respondents believe the cause of the event is present over time), (4) a question about whether the event has a global or specific cause (i.e., how much the respondents believe the cause of the event occurs across varying conditions).The ASQ is a 48-item questionnaire that measures an individual’s explanatory style (positive versus negative). The questionnaire is made up of 12 hypothetical events (6 good and 6 bad), each followed by 4 questions: (1) a free-response question about the cause of the hypothetical event, (2) a question about whether the event has an internal or external cause (i.e., how much respondents believe they themselves are responsible for the event) (3) a question about whether the event has a stable or unstable cause (i.e., how much respondents believe the cause of the event is present over time), (4) a question about whether the event has a global or specific cause (i.e., how much the respondents believe the cause of the event occurs across varying conditions).

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• Peterson, C., Semmel, A., von Baeyer, C., Abramson, L. Y, Metalsky, G. I., & Seligman, M. E. P. (1982). The Attributional Style Questionnaire. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 6, 287-299.

• Xenikou, A., Furnham, A., & McCarrey, M. (1997). Attributional style for negative events: A proposition for a more reliable and valid measure of attributional style. British Journal of Psychology, 88(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1997.tb02620.x