Ethnic variations in the attribution of success and failure

• Main Authors: Celis, Michael, Katigbak, Alberto, Ramirez, Alberto
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1993
• Subjects: Attribution (Social psychology); Success; Failure (Psychology)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/5991
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study examined whether there were ethnic variations in the attributions of success and failure. 240 public school students underwent an experiment that tries to find out whether there is a significant difference in the attribution of success and failure in academic related events. Pupils were asked to take a test and were asked to evaluate their performance outcomes through four attributional factors such as luck, Task difficulty, effort and ability. The hypothesis is stated as: There is a significant difference in attributions of success and failure accross ethnic groups and gender. The experiment is a 2X2X2 factorial design. The statistics used are the MANOVA, ANOVA and LSD, with a significant level of .05. Results showed that there are significant differences in Performance outcome and ethnicity with Ability as the most dominant and luck as the least dominant factor.