CULTURAL-DIVERSITY IN CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS FOR ILLNESS - THE ROLE OF THE SUPERNATURAL
CULTURAL-DIVERSITY IN CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS FOR ILLNESS - THE ROLE OF THE SUPERNATURAL
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DOI：
10.1007/bf01858104
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发表时间：
1994-04-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
KLONOFF, EA
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作者：
LANDRINE, H;KLONOFF, EA
我们调查了关于疾病原因的信仰的文化多样性，并评估了流行的自由形式方法(要求受试者产生原因)抑制少数群体表达他们对超自然原因的信仰的可能性。正如预测的那样，当被要求列出致病原因并根据其重要性对其进行评级时，白人和少数族裔在他们产生的原因的数量或类型(自然与超自然)或他们对这些原因的重要性评级方面没有区别。然而，当这些受试者被赋予自然和超自然原因时，就重要性而言，少数族裔认为超自然原因比白人重要得多，而且支持这类原因的少数族裔比白人多。研究了疾病因果归因中的文化差异，并强调了方法学在确定这种归因中的作用。
We investigated cultural diversity in beliefs about the causes of illness and assessed the possibility that popular free-form methodologies (asking subjects to generate causes) inhibit minorities from expressing their belief in supernatural causes. As predicted, when asked to generate causes of illness and rate these in terms of their importance, whites and minorities did not differ in the number or type (natural vs supernatural) of causes they generated or in the importance rating they assigned to these. However, when these same subjects were provided with natural and supernatural causes to rate.in terms of importance, minorities rated supernatural causes significantly more important than did whites, and more minorities than whites endorsed such causes. Cultural differences in causal attributions for illness are examined, and the role of methodology in determining such attributions is highlighted.