Actor
and Observer Attributions by Japanese Subjects for Success and
Failure in Non-Competitive Situations
H. Yamauchi |
Ninety-four
male and ninety-six female college students were administered a kind
of jigsaw puzzle in order to examine the actor-observer attributions
for success and failure in non-competitive situations. Subjects were
asked to rate the extent to which they attribute their own and their
partner's outcomes to four causes: ability, effort, task difficulty,
and luck. They were also asked to predict their partner's attribution
for them. The dual scaling method was applied to the rank-order data
form. Results revealed that there were various trends of causal attribution
on success but not on failure. The influences of outcome patterns
for self-other and the effects of the subject's gender were also
examined.
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