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Download full textMarsh, Herbert W. – 1984
The self-serving effect (SSE), often depicted as a bias, is the tendency to accept responsibility for one's own successes but not one's own failures. Two studies of Australian fifth graders (n=226, n=559) were further analyzed to investigate individual differences in SSE. The Sydney Attribution Scale measured students' perceptions of the causes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance
