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ERIC Number: EJ253028
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Jun
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Competitive versus Individualistic Goal Structures: The Salience of Past Performance Information for Causal Attributions and Affect.
Ames, Carole; Ames, Russell
Journal of Educational Psychology, v73 n3 p411-18 Jun 1981
The purpose of this study was to examine children's cognitive-attributional and affective response patterns within competitive and individualistic goal structures. Findings showed that effort attributions covaried with outcome in the individualistic structure, whereas luck and outcome covaried in the competitive structure. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Ability, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Competition, Failure, Goal Orientation, Grade 5, Grade 6, Individual Needs, Intermediate Grades, Motivation, Success
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Effort; Luck