Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Journal of applied social psychology
10 (1980), S. 0
ISSN:
1559-1816
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Psychology
Notes:
The expectancy confirmation and egotism approaches to attributions in achievement settings are contrasted in this study. It was found that students in two psychology classes expected to do well on their exams and that these expectations were based on internal factors (ability, effort). Post-test attributions were determined almost entirely by the simple valence of the outcome (success-failure). High outcomes were associated with internal attributions and low outcomes were associated with external attributions. It appears that students who perform poorly avoid the blame for failure by making ego-defensive external attributions and that these attributions enable them to make unreasonably high predictions for future performance. Some limited support was found for the notion that attribution may be affected by the degree to which outcomes confirm or disconfirm expectations.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1980.tb00706.x
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