The purposes of this study was to explore the developmental differences in perceived causes for success and failure, and to examine the cognitive and affective consequences (achievement expectancy and self-concept) of causal attributions. To achieve t...
The purposes of this study was to explore the developmental differences in perceived causes for success and failure, and to examine the cognitive and affective consequences (achievement expectancy and self-concept) of causal attributions. To achieve the purposes, questinnaire contained self-concept scale(with 85 items for academic and nonacademic self-concept) and attribution scale(with 40 items for individual perceptions of th causes for success and failure) were administerd to 506 male 526 female students from grades 5, 8, 11, and sophomore in colleges.
The major results were as follows :
a) significant grade-related differences in important causes of success and failure,
b) four distinctive patterns of causal attributions, but no change of the pattersn through grades(ages).
c) substantial positive correlations between success/internal control and self-worth (non-academic self-concept) in grades 5, 11, and sophomore, but substantial negative correlations between success.external control and self-worth in 3 graders as above,
d) no significant correlations of subscores of attributions with the measures of achievement expectancy,
e) no significant differences in self-concept and achievement expectancy by 3 patterns of causal attributions.