Attribution And Responsibility Judgment Of University Students In Legal Incident

Improving the consciousness of law in our people is very important for strengthening the legal system and social moral of our socialist country. University students would be the builders of our country in the future, so their legal consciousness and awareness of the social responsibility would influence the future of our country and society directly. Therefore, we study how the university students understand the legal incident, how to judge legal responsibility, and the level of their legal consciousness.Referring to the judgment of responsibility and attribution theory of Bernard Weiner (1995, 2000), two questionnaires concerning a survey of the attribution of a typical legal incident and an inventory of legal consciousness were designed for testing. The main results of this research were as follows: first, it verified the applicability of the attribution theory involving judgment of responsibility in legal incident, the model was consisted with the theory of Bernard Weiner. Second, it showed that university students could attribute the behaviors of the criminal and the victim correctly, the characteristics of attribution of university students in legal incident were summarized as below: controllability and intentional played a vital role with responsibility judgment; affective responses and responsibility judgment interacted with each other, and caused the successive behaviors; causal location (external social environments and criminal character) would affect on responsibility judgment in legal incident. Third, according to the results of this study, a new model was formed, it was a little supplement and development of Weiner's theory. Fourth, The investigation indicated university students of our country have definite legal consciousness. Most students realize the importance of controllability and intentional on responsibility judgment, and they could judge legal liability accurately.