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Peer reviewedMcMahan, Ian D. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973
A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Failure
Download full textAmes, Carole; Ames, Russell – 1975
The purpose of this study was to test an informational vs. a dispositional hypothesis in predicting how children resolve instances of attributional conflict. Sixty-four sixth grade boys served as subjects after scoring in the upper and lower quartile of the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR). Each child performed two separate…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Children, Elementary Education
