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Haugen, Richard; Lund, Thorleif; Ommundsen, Yngvar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between attribution and selected personality dispositions, as well as self-serving attribution. Four hypotheses were formulated: (1) Attributions for positive events correlate differently with the five personality dispositions than attributions for negative events, (2) factor analysis and…
Descriptors: Personality, Factor Analysis, Attribution Theory, Correlation
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Haugen, Richard; Lund, Thorleif – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Studied how achievement motives and incentive values were related to attribution for 166 advanced education majors in Norway. As expected, success-oriented persons attributed positive events more internally, stably, and globally, and negative events more externally, unstably, and specifically, than did failure-avoidant persons. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Education Majors, Foreign Countries