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Tony, Tam Shui Kee – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
This article presents the findings of a study hypothesizing that school discipline problems are a maladaptive response to the demand of the school environment as a result of deficits in the area of locus of control and attributional style. The findings indicate that an external orientation of locus of control and a passive pattern of attribution…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Discipline Problems, Locus of Control
Brophy, Jere E.; Rohrkemper, Mary M. – 1980
Elementary teachers read vignettes depicting incidents involving (fictional) students who presented chronic behavior problems, and then told how they would respond if the incidents occurred in their classrooms. Responses were coded for attributions about the students and about the teacher's roles in causing and remediating the problem. Teachers…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Coping, Discipline Problems, Elementary Education