1 Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
Assessment. 2018 Sep;25(6):801-812. doi: 10.1177/1073191116662909. Epub 2016 Aug 9.
Two studies were conducted to develop and validate a six-item scale for measuring context-specific attributions regarding the extent to which people either blame or exonerate partners during couples' conflicts. Context-specific attributions pertain to appraisals made during a single episode of relationship conflict, and the scale was expected to be distinct from existing attribution scales measuring people's schemas regarding the types of attributions they typically make. Study 1 included 2,452 people in marriage or cohabitating relationships; Study 2 included 172 people in dating relationships, and participants in both studies completed Internet questionnaires. Item response theory was used to create an attribution scale using the fewest number of items to discriminate reliably across the full range of attribution levels. The resulting scale produced an expected pattern of convergent and divergent correlations with other context-specific measures, including two types of underlying concerns and three types of emotion. The context-specific attribution scale explained variance in these criterion variables that could not be explained by other existing scales that assess attributions at the schematic level.
两项研究旨在开发和验证一个六分量表，用于衡量在伴侣冲突中，人们对伴侣的责备或宽恕程度的情境归因。情境归因是指在单一的关系冲突事件中做出的评价，并且该量表预计与现有的归因量表不同，后者衡量的是人们对其通常做出的归因类型的模式。研究 1 包括 2452 名处于婚姻或同居关系中的人；研究 2 包括 172 名处于约会关系中的人，两项研究的参与者都完成了在线问卷。项目反应理论被用来创建一个归因量表，使用最少的项目来可靠地区分整个归因水平范围。所得量表与其他情境特定的测量方法产生了预期的聚合和发散相关性，包括两种潜在的关注点和三种情绪类型。情境归因量表解释了这些标准变量的方差，而这些方差无法用其他评估模式水平归因的现有量表来解释。
