PERSONALITY AND ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLES

This study investigates the relationships between neuroticism and extraversion and three attributional styles: internality, stability and globality, for good and bad events. Results show that women scoring low on neuroticism have significantly higher scores on good events than on bad events on all three attributional styles. Men scoring low on neuroticism score higher on good than bad events for stability, whereas those scoring high on neuroticism, score higher on good than on bad events for globality. With regard to extraversion, low-scoring men and women score higher on good than on bad events on internality, and-whether high or low on extraversion-men and women score higher on good than on bad events for stability. © 1991.