Two studies designed to examine the attributionalbehavioral-affective factors underlying heterosexual social relations were undertaken. The first study compared measures of social avoidance and distress, fear of negative evaluation, attribution bias, risk taking, and hope for future success between persons high and low in social self-esteem in success and failure heterosexual social circumstances. Two hundred and fifty-four male undergraduate university students served as the subjects. High social self-esteem subjects were characterized by low scores on SAD and FNE. They attributed successful social experiences to internal and stable causes, and failure social experiences to external and variable causes. In contrast, low social self-esteem subjects were characterized by high scores on SAD and FNE. They attributed successful social experiences to external and variable-causes, and failure social experiences to internal and stable causes. It was the Stability-Variability dimension which characterized the success and failure attributions of high social self-esteem subjects, while it was the Locus of Control dimension which characterized the success and failure attributions of low social self-esteem subjects. In the second study, 39 subjects were assigned to one of six treatment conditions: social skills training; cognitive re-attribution; combined skills training and reattribution; homework assignments; self-monitoring; and test-retest control. These subjects were selected on the basis of low scores on the SSEI, high scores on the SAD and FNE scales, and a demonstrated negative attribution bias. Results did not show significant differences between the treatment conditions. However, the small number of subjects in each group seriously reduced the statistical power of the analyses, significant overall treatment effects were obtained from pre- to posttesting. It was suggested that the self-monitoring of social contacts was the variable to account for these effects. Implications for future research were discussed. Attempts were made to relate self-monitoring to cognitive aspects of behavior change.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/11077 |
| Date | January 1978 |
| Creators | Dotzenroth, Susan E. |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 338 p. |
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