Psychology Research and Behavior Management (Nov 2020)
Development of the Attributional Style of Doctor Questionnaire
Abstract
Hemei Tian,1 Pei Wang2 1Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, People’s Republic of China; 2Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Pei WangFaculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People’s Republic of ChinaTel +86 21 6432 3259Email [email protected]: The attributional style of clinical workers will affect their emotion and behavior and affect how they deal with the relationship with patients. Current tools lack clinical events and are not suitable for measuring the attributional style of doctor. In this study, the development of the Doctor’s Attributional Style Questionnaire (DASQ) is presented.Methods: In study 1, based on the previous literature and the open-ended questionnaire, the theoretical structure of DASQ was constructed. In study 2, items analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted in the sample (n=559) to select the best items for the DASQ. In study 3, the internal structure of the DASQ was tested in the sample (n=740) via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and 218 doctors were retested four weeks later.Results: There are 24 items in the scale, including positive events questionnaire and negative events questionnaire, all of which are composed of four dimensions: controllability, globality, stability, and internality. The fitting degree of each questionnaire model is good, and all indexes are above 0.9. The internal consistency coefficient and retest coefficient of both the positive events questionnaire and the negative events questionnaire were above 0.75.Conclusion: The DASQ meets the requirements of measurement and can be used to measure the attributional style of doctors.Keywords: doctor, the attribution style, scale development
