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Abstract
In schizophrenia, all life events become unclear, and with the chronic course, patients engage in the use of passive coping strategies as avoidance and social withdrawal. Consequently, the cognitive processes that underlie social interactions of these patients must be studied. Social cognition’s attributional style is one of the important factors that should be considered in the care of patients with schizophrenia. This importance emerged because social cognition is concerned with the mental processes that involve perceiving, interpreting, and generating responses to the intentions and behaviors of others. As one of the domains of social cognition, attributional style which gained a lot of attention, because it involves giving meaning and interpretations for events in order to know why people do what they do in social situations. By definition, attributional style is the way in which one explains the causes for positive and negative outcome of events, and it is composed of three dimensions: the locus of attribution, stability, and globality. Nurses are in the forefront of those who have to know about attributional style because they mainly depend on nurse-patient interactions in order to care for patients with schizophrenia. So, it is mandatory for psychiatric nursing patients.Part II: The Ambiguous Intentions Attribution Questionnaire.