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ERIC Number: EJ517201
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0221
Causal Attribution Perception in Sports Achievement: A Cross-Cultural Study on Attributional Concepts in Germany and China.
Si, Gangyan; And Others
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, v26 n5 p537-53 Sep 1995
Examined culturally based differences in the perceptions of causal attributions for athletic achievement in Germany and China. Results show that the Chinese perceive success and failure to be more internal and controllable than the Germans. This result is discussed from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture and from today's social conditions in the People's Republic of China. (GR)
Descriptors: Achievement, Athletics, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Failure, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Locus of Control, Non Western Civilization, Secondary Education, Social Science Research, Western Civilization
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: China; Germany
Note: Supported by a grant from the Heinrich-Hertz Foundation.