Attributions for Job Termination and Psychological Distress
研究了德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市失业男性工人对工作终止的归因方式与心理困扰的关系，发现被解雇者比被裁员者困扰更重，且归因于不公待遇或自身缺陷时困扰最高，但自责与高困扰无关。
The nature of job termination and causal attribution for termination were examined for their association with psychological distress among a sample of working-class men in San Antonio, Texas who had recently become unemployed. Laid-off workers were found to experience significantly lower levels of distress than fired workers, largely because the former overwhelmingly defined job loss as a function of the economy. The fired typically attributed job loss to unfair treatment by employers, and they, like the laid off who made similar attributions, indicated significant distress. Psychological reactivity was by far the highest among fired and laid-off workers who reported having been unjustly terminated because of personal shortcomings or deficiencies. Contrary to conventional thought, job loss self-blame was not found to be associated with high levels of distress.