Mea culpa? A study of the relationships among personality traits, life‐events and ascribed accident causation
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 22 (3) , 223-224
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1983.tb00607.x
Abstract
On the basis of their own reports, accident victims attending a casualty department were independently assigned either to a causal group (n = 25), i.e. apparently culpable in causing their accident, or a non-causal group (n = 25). Comparisons were made between these two groups of patients on: (1) sociodemographic characteristics; (2) locus of control; (3) recent life-events; and (4) cognitive failures. The groups differed only in their tendency to perceive locus of control as being internal (causal group) or external (non-causal group).Keywords
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