Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleSubjective Perception and Causal Attributions for Poverty in ItalyMaurizio Norcia, Antonella RissottoDoes a relation between subjective perception of one’s own socioeconomic status and what one believes about impoverishment exist? Are people’s causal attributions for poverty related to their concern for cost of living, their evaluation of economic situation in the last 12 months or prevision for next 12 months? This paper aims at studying these relations in order to better understand … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 16 Jun 2015 · 7,368 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleCardiac Patients’ Causal Attributions for Coronary Heart DiseaseLeila Gholizadeh, Yenna Salamonson, Mehrdad Heydari, Patricia M. DavidsonAccurate casual attributions for CHD have been associated with more congruent risk reduction behaviours and improved health outcomes. This article aimed to assess causal attributions for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) of Middle Eastern women diagnosed with heart disease using different risk targets and compare these attributions with participants’ actual. Using a survey methodology, 121 female patients in cardiac units of … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 20 Jul 2013 · 6,907 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsCOVID-19 Pandemic and Religious Attributions. An Exploratory Study in ItalyMaurizio Norcia, Elisa ColìIn 2020, over 2 m Italian people contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus and more than 105 thousand died. A pandemic of this magnitude and the very stringent countermeasures adopted were unprecedented also in terms of its psychological, social, and economic far-reaching effects on people's lives. One of the principal effects of such a tragic and unexpected situation is that of triggering … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 19, Issue 1 · 6 Feb 2023 · 6,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsCOVID-19 and Cause-Seeking. An Exploratory Study in ItalyMaurizio Norcia, Elisa ColìIn 2020, over 2 million Italian people contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A pandemic of this magnitude and the very stringent countermeasures that have been adopted had a disruptive effect on people's lives, at a psychological, social, and economic levels. The exploratory study illustrated in this article focuses on the search for causes carried out by people and prompted by the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 1 · 10 Jan 2023 · 5,737 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDoes Subjective Class Predict the Causal Attribution for Poverty?Ramzi N. NasserThis study investigated the attributions for poverty among secondary school and university students in relation to socio-economic. The questionnaire was adapted from Feagin's[1] and Abouchedid & Nasser[2], and included 15-item poverty questionnaire. It was administered to a sample (n = 242) of secondary school and university students from public and private schools and universities in Lebanon. Findings showed that Lebanese … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2007 · 7,719 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMaking Sense of Industrial Accidents: The Role of Job SatisfactionSeth A. Gyekye, Simo SalminenThe study examined causality attributions made for workplace accidents and how these attributions may be influenced by job satisfaction. It was part of an extensive exploratory work on causal attributions for industrial accidents in Ghana's work environment. It was carried out in a field setting where the participants were actual accident victims (n=121), co-workers (n=117) and supervisors (n=82) at their … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2006 · 7,252 accessesView PDFCite