Study participants included 328 licensed psychologists in Minnesota and Oklahoma; 44 percent were female. Experimentally controlled vignettes were constructed to investigate the effects of five two-level independent variables. As dependent measures, subjects assigned relative percentages of responsibility for abuse to the father, mother, child/victim, and older sister. Results indicated that fathers suspected of sexual abuse were held significantly more responsible than those suspected of physical abuse. In addition, adolescent-age victims were held significantly more responsible than 7-year-old victims. All sources of responsibility were affected by the child providing a verbal disclosure of abuse to a psychotherapist. Regression analyses also showed that certainty in the occurrence of abuse and responsibility attributed to the child/victim and older sister accounted for 31 percent of variance in decisions to report the case as suspected abuse. Findings demonstrate the influence of case-specific characteristics on patterns of child abuse responsibility attribution among the sample of psychologists. 19 references, 1 note, 3 tables, and 1 figure