Attribution of Mutual Personality Traits by Employed and Unemployed Subjects

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This study shows that both the employed and the unemployed subjects tend to attribute positive traits more to employed people and negative traits more to unemployed people. Employed subjects believe positive traits to be more characteristic for employed than for unemployed people, whereas attribution of negative traits does not differentiate between employed and unemployed subjects. The hypothesis that negative dispositional attribution by employed subjects is related to perceived threat of becoming unemployed oneself and to expected personal and general welfare development is not supported. As far as employed subjects are concerned trait attribution is related to attitudes towards social security, as well as to a number of moral and sociopolitical beliefs.

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