Abstract
The present study was designed to assess the joint effects of situational information and the individual's attributional style on the choice and consequences of a stable or unstable attribution for failure. Israeli undergraduates were divided according to their attributional style for negative events into stable, undefined, and unstable attributors and were exposed to no-feedback or failure conditions in which they received instructions encouraging them to attribute failure to stable or unstable causes. Results indicate that the choice of a stable or unstable attribution for failure was influenced mainly by situational cues and that the individual's attributional style contributed to subsequent expectancies and the quality of performance following failure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 739-753 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1990 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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