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ERIC Number: EJ500531
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-6543
Integrating Social and Personal Theories of Achievement Striving.
Weiner, Bernard
Review of Educational Research, v64 n4 p557-73 Win 1994
Research documents that attributions of failure resulting from lack of ability result in less punishment from others than do ascriptions to lack of effort. This paper provides a conceptual analysis of these empirical findings, guided by a taxonomy of causal thinking. Process and functional understandings of achievement strivings are distinguished. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Classification, Failure, Goal Orientation, Social Theories
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Effort; Empirical Research
Note: Version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Assn. (Los Angeles, CA, August 1994).