Contextualized attribution: How young unemployed people blame themselves and the system and the relationship between blame and subjective well-being

Are young people more likely to blame themselves than the system for their being unemployed in times of neoliberalism characterized by an emphasis on self-responsibility? And if so, how does that affect their sense of well-being, given that this is known to deteriorate for people when they become unemployed? Inspired by attributional theory we have utilized a mixed-methods approach customized to exploring the attributions of young unemployed...