Relationships
between Attributions and Affective Reactions to Success and Failure
H. Yamauchi |
To
examine same of the relationships between causal attribution processes
and affective reactions to success and failure outcome, 112 male
and 60 female college students were administered a booklet of materials
to elicit affective reactions to success or failure. The matelials
consisted of descriptions of eight different achievement situations.
Each desription consisted of an outcome and one of eight causal attributions
for the outcome. Dependent measures for success consisted of eleven
rating scales of success-related affect, and measures for failure
consisted of nine rating scales of failure-related affect. For each
affect, subjects were instructed to indicate on a 4-point rating
scale how strongly they would feel that affection in each of the
achievement situations. The method of dual scaling was applied to
the affective reactions. Results revealed that there were two different
types of achievement-related affects, i.e., outcome dependent and
attribution dependent. The implication of the findings for the relation
between attribution processes and affect are discussed.
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