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Peer reviewedBar-Tal, Daniel; Darom, Efraim – Child Development, 1979
Using an open-ended questionnaire, 236 fifth- and sixth-grade pupils attributed their success or failure on a test given in their classroom to eight different causes. Results indicated that the pupils tended to attribute success mainly to external causes and failure mainly to internal causes. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Failure
