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Benenson, Joyce F.; Dweck, Carol S. – Child Development, 1986
Subjects of this study were 144 White, middle-class children in kindergarten, first, second, and fourth grades. Children were interviewed individually about their explanations for both academic and social outcomes and their evaluations of their own outcomes. Self-evaluations became less positive in both domains and less similar across domains with…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education