The Measurement of Explanatory Style
Gregory McClell Buchanan, Martin E.P. Seligman, Martin Seligman · 2013
This Chapter chronicles the current State of the measurement of explanatory style. The three most commonly used methods for assessing explanatory style are described and critiqued. They are the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ; Peterson, Semmel, von Baeyer, Abramson, Metalsky, & Seligman, 1982; Selig man, Abramson, Semmel, & von Baeyer, 1979), the Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanations technique (CAVE; Peterson, Luborsky, & Seligman, 1983), and the Children’s Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ; Kaslow, Tannenbaum, & Seligman, 1978).