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McIntosh, Danny N.; And Others – 1985
Previous research has investigated the role of personal faith and locus of control in attribution. To expand these investigations to include the role of Quest faith (a personal struggle to understand), 154 undergraduates (57 males, 97 females) participated in a study. Participants were those who ranked themselves at least 4 out of 7 on a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, College Students, Higher Education
Kernis, Michael H. – 1984
Perceived locus of causality is an important factor in assessing the impact of prior success or failure on later performance. In order to examine the effects of internal (self) versus external (partner) attributions on subsequent performance, two studies were conducted. In the first study 80 female undergradutes worked on a series of mazes with an…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Samuel, William; And Others – 1983
In an attempt to replicate an earlier study of attribution of responsibility (Experiment 2 of Samuel et. al, 1981), this research utilized a case study describing an 18-year-old named Johnny who tripped and fell while shoplifting a rifle from a sporting goods store; the gun fired, inflicting either minor or critical injuries on a nearby customer.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Crime, Higher Education
Schriber, Jacquelyn B.; And Others – 1983
Two types of bias in the attribution process are the responsibility bias, in which individuals tend to assume more than their objective share of responsibility, and unrealistic optimism, in which individuals tend to assume that future outcomes will be positive. In order to investigate these self-serving biases among married and divorced…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Bias, Conflict, Divorce
Weed, Keri; And Others – 1984
The influences of locus of control, awareness of control and metacognition on the use and transfer of a trained strategy were examined. Specifically, it was hypothesized that internal locus of control would be associated with more strategic performance, and that those children who were able to both accurately assess their performance with and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Locus of Control
Franzoi, Stephen L.; Sweeney, Paul D. – 1985
Research has associated high levels of private self-consciousness (PSC) with accurate self-knowledge and with behavior consistent with one's attitudes. A study by Buss and Scheier reported that privately self-conscious persons are more susceptible to attribution bias, the self-focus of such persons leading them to attribute their positive and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Bias, College Students, Higher Education

Ward, L. Charles; Thomas, Linda L. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Administered items from three locus of control (LOC) tests and the Beck Hopelessness Scale to 197 undergraduates. Factor analyses produced multiple factors for each LOC test; Beck proved to be unidimensional. Each LOC test contained salient dimension describing belief in luck, chance, or fate. Other common themes were internal control and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Factor Analysis, Higher Education

Allen, J. Scott, Jr.; Drabman, Ronald S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
The investigation assessed whether 6 learning-disabled boys (ages 10-12) who were taking stimulant medication reported fewer adaptive attributions in academic situations than their 8 nonmedicated peers. Boys who were not taking medication reported more internal-effort attributions in failure situations than boys who were taking medication.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Drug Therapy, Failure, Intermediate Grades
Levey, Cathy A. – 1985
Based on a modification of Berglas and Jones' (1978) design, conditions of contingent and noncontingent success and failure were manipulated to determine when and why individuals choose to adopt self-handicapping strategies. Male undergraduates (N=76) were informed that they were participating in a study investigating the effects of music on…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Whitley, Bernard E., Jr. – 1985
Researchers in attribution theory have used two styles in wording attributional questions. The informational style asks subjects the extent to which they possess ability, effort and luck relative to a task, and task difficulty. The causal style asks subjects the extent to which various factors influenced or caused the outcome. A study was…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, College Students, Failure
Banks, L. Morgan, III; Goggin, William C. – 1983
Both external locus of control (i.e., a generalized expectancy that reinforcement is controlled by luck or fate instead of oneself) and internal locus of attribution (i.e., beliefs that success or failure result from an individual's actions rather than external causes) have been related to depression. To examine the relationship of attributions…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
Perrez, Meinrad – 1987
Written in German, this article demonstrates the influence of different types of contingency information on the development of infant's locus of control and causal attribution, and discusses empirical models for calculating contingency parameters of the microsocial environment of infants, toddlers, and preschool children. Models discussed include:…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Foreign Countries, Infants, Locus of Control
The Attribution of Universal or Personal Helplessness in Nondepressed and Depressed Elderly Females.
Maiden, Robert J. – 1981
The potential for feelings of hopelessness and depression in the aged is well documented. Although studies have examined the role of perceived control in ameliorating depression in the institutionalized elderly, no research has actually measured the perceived causal attributions among depressed, hopeless and/or institutionalized elderly…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology), Failure
Patrick, Linda F.; Moore, Janet S. – 1985
The reformulated learned helplessness model for the prediction of depression has been investigated extensively in young adults. Results have linked attributions made to undesirable, controllable events to depression in this age group. This reformulated model was investigated in 97 elderly women and was contrasted to the original learned…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attribution Theory, Depression (Psychology), Females

Spencer, Rebecca A.; Head, Daniel N.; Pysh, Margaret Van Dusen; Chalfant, James C. – RE:view, 1997
This study investigated the mastery-oriented and learned-helplessness response patterns of children (n=13) with visual impairments in grades 3 to 6 who were divided into two groups, low vision children who were visual learners and nonvisual learners. Subjects were given the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. No significant…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Blindness, Helplessness, Intermediate Grades