Relationships
of Achievement-related Motives to Causal Attributions, Affects,
and Expectancy for Success and Failure under Male-female Competitive
Situation
H. Yamauchi |
The
relationships between achievement-related motives, causal attributions,
and affections and expectancy were examined using 80 male and 80
female undergraduate students. Subjects were administered the ARM
Scale in the first session. At least three weeks later, a pair of
subjects of the opposite sexes was asked to performe a block-design
test under a competitive situation, to attribute their own outcome
to four causal factors, and to judge their affects and expectancy.
Variable causal attributions were more dominant in success than in
failure, while the internal and stable causal attribution was more
dominant in failure than in success. Some results from the correlations
between the causal attributions and the affects and expectancy supported
Weiner's hypothesis, but other results did not. To explore further
the relative influence of achievement-related motives on causal attribution,
affects, and expectancy, multiple regression analyses were applied.
The analyses showed influences of some of achivement-related motives
on these variables.
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