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LeClair, Mary C.; Hansen, James C. – 1995
The goal of this study was to extend what is currently understood regarding attitudes toward the homeless population. The study focused on how homeless and nonhomeless adolescents attribute the causes of homelessness. Grounded in attribution theory, the study hypothesized that nonhomeless adolescents would ascribe causality to dispositional or…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
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Golovatch, Yelena; Vanderplank, Robert – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2007
This article reports on an investigation into the attributions of success and perceived areas of strength and weakness of adult learners of English as a foreign language in the Department of Continuing Education at Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus. The students attributed their limited progress in learning the foreign language mainly to…
Descriptors: Role, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes