Causal attributions of Ghanaian industrial workers for accident occurrence

dc.contributor.author	Gyekye, Seth
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-26T10:43:19Z
dc.date.available	2012-11-26T10:43:19Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1394
dc.description.abstract	This study confirms the self-defensive attribution hypothesis on causal atrributions of accidents in Ghana's work environment. In this investigation, Ghanaian industrial workers and their supervisors assigned causailty to industrial accidents, and their responses were compared. The results showed that the victims attributed their accidents to external causes to a greater extent than did the supervisors.This finding reflects the tendency toward self-protective bias, whereby people tend to project blame onto external circumstance.	en_US
dc.subject	Ghana; Ghanaian industrial workers, causal attributions, accident occurrence, defensive attribution hypothesis	en_US
dc.title	Causal attributions of Ghanaian industrial workers for accident occurrence	en_US
dc.type	Article - Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2004 34 (11)	en_US