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Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
Using 559 fifth graders, measures were collected to assess multiple dimensions of academic self-attribution, self-concept, and inferred self-concept, and academic achievement. The specificity and predictability of the observed patterns of relations support the construct validity of interpretations based on both the self-attribution and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textMarsh, Herbert W. – 1983
In a sample of 559 fifth-grade students, measures were collected to assess: (1) dimensions of self-attribution for causes of academic outcomes; (2) multiple dimensions of self-concept; and (3) academic achievements. The empirically-derived dimensions of academic self-attribution replicated and extended results of previous research, but failed to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
This study examines dispositional and situational approaches to attribution research, individual differences in self-attribution, and the relationship between self-attributions and dimensions of self-concept. Results of a study of 248 fifth graders in Sydney, Australia, are discussed. (BS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1986
Newman (1984) examined the causal relations between math self-concept and math achievement in an 8-year longitudinal study using Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analyses. He concluded that math self-concept did not influence subsequent math achievement. However, the study suffered in that math self-concept was inferred from a single-item…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Correlation, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
The self serving effect (SSE), the tendency to accept responsibility for one's own successes but not failures, was examined in three studies with adolescents. Results showed individual differences in SSE size were logically related to differences in: (1) academic self-concepts; (2) academic self-concepts inferred by significant others; and (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory, Egocentrism
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1984
The self-serving effect (SSE), often depicted as a bias, is the tendency to accept responsibility for one's own successes but not one's own failures. Two studies of Australian fifth graders (n=226, n=559) were further analyzed to investigate individual differences in SSE. The Sydney Attribution Scale measured students' perceptions of the causes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1986
Marsh and Parker (1984) described the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) whereby equally able students have lower academic self-concepts in high-ability schools than in low-ability schools. The present investigation, a reanalysis of the Youth in Transition data, supported the generality of the earlier findings and demonstrated new theoretical…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance
