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Causal Attributions for Losing as Perceived by Adolescents.
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Wisniewski, Shirley A.; Gaier, Eugene L. – Adolescence, 1990
Assessed causal attributions for losing perceived by high school students (N=150). Subjects responded to questionnaire comprising three categories of activities (sports, academic, social) in which they had not won or achieved desired outcome. Found that adolescent girls indicated significantly more internal attributions and boys more external…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
Children's Beliefs about the Causes of Success and Failure in School Settings.
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Frieze, Irene Hanson; Snyder, Howard Nelson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Children from a Catholic elementary school were interviewed to determine what they saw as probable causes for success or failure in four situations: a school testing situation an art project, playing football, and catching frogs. Causal explanations were found to differ across the four situations. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
Internal-External Locus-of-Control Dimension as a Function of Age and the Socialization Milieu
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Lifshitz, Michaela – Child Development, 1973
The Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR) was given to 183 children, ages 9 to 14, from three kibutz movements in Israel, in order to explore the meaning of locus of control among children raised within a specified framework. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Failure
Constructing Success and Failure: Age Differences in Perceptions and Explanations of Success and Failure.
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Blank, Thomas O.; Levesque, Maurice J. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Examined age differences in attributions for self-reported successes and failures in important and daily situations. Attributions and affects were collected from 61 young, 21 middle-aged, and 15 older adults. Middle-aged and older adults were more likely than young adults to attribute failure to external causes and to describe more social than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, College Students
A Development Analysis of Indian Children's Perceptions of Control in the Different Domains of School Functioning.
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Bhana, Kastoor – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1985
Assessed Indian children's perception of control in the cognitive, social, and physical domains of school functioning by using the multidimensional measure of children's perception of control. Data analyses indicated a significant developmental difference in children's perception of the source of control, and this varied with their success or…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Structures, Educational Environment