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Peer reviewedBar-Tal, Daniel; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Whether there is consistency in pupils' attributions regarding their achievement outcome in two consecutive tests in (a) the same subject and (b) different subjects was explored. Results showed consistency in individuals' attributional patterns. However, consistency scores ensuing from the same achievement outcomes were greater than those from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
Sparta, Steven N. – 1979
Some children exhibit a pattern of debilitating behavior characterized as helplessness. Within an achievement context, such children can be observed to initiate few constructive activities, to work with little intensity on those activities already attempted, and to persist at a task only moderately--especially following failure. A stratified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns
Download full textRothblum, Esther D.; And Others – 1985
Previous research has shown that college students often report problems with procrastination on academic tasks. A study was conducted to investigate factors related to academic procrastination. Subjects (N=379) completed the Procrastination Assessment Scale on measures of test anxiety, attributions, and self-control. A subset of subjects (N=125)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Peer reviewedDurante, Joan E. – Journal of Special Education, 1993
Five matched groups of 15 children (ages 8-13) were compared to determine whether behavioral subgroups of children with learning disabilities (LD) form different beliefs regarding causes of their achievement-related successes and failures. The achievement attributions of subjects were heterogeneous and related to presence and type of behavior…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns
Peer reviewedMikulincer, Mario – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Uses a Hebrew version of the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) to assess the attributional style among 120 Israeli undergraduate students. Students were asked whether their performance of a cognitive task was a result of personal or situational factors. Findings suggest that attributional style and situational cues contribute to the quality…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Gama, Elizabeth Maria P.; Jesus, Denise Meyrelles de – 1997
How low-income Brazilian students explain their school performance and the predominant achievement causes were studied. The relationship between achievement attribution and school achievement and students' conceptions of choice, career, agency, and relationship with achievement were also studied, using the causal attribution theory of B. Weiner.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
