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The Relationship Between Global Self-Concept And Attribution Preference In Primary School Children, Carolyn Moore
The Relationship Between Global Self-Concept And Attribution Preference In Primary School Children, Carolyn Moore
Theses : Honours
The purpose of this study was to compare low and high self-concept students to ascertain whether they differ in the causes they attribute to their performance on a problem-solving task. The relationships of gender to self-concept and gender to attribution preference were also examined. This study differed from previous studies examining relationships with causal attributions by focusing on students' attribution preferences for a task with an equivocal outcome as opposed to tasks with success and failure outcomes. Eighty-two year seven students from four Perth metropolitan primary schools participated in this study. The study was conducted using a 2 x 2 …