The hypothesis that students who cheat will externalize the cause of this behavior was tested by contrasting the causal inferences of cheating students and noncheating students. The results supported Kelley’s attributional model, for cheaters tended to note the high distinctiveness, high consensus, and low consistency of their actions, while noncheaters noted the low distinctiveness, low consen...

Smmmiry Clients often provide reasons, justifications, and explanations (i.e., attributions) about the causes of their problems and what they believe needs to be done to ameliorate them. Behavior therapists also frequently generate hypotheses about causal factors contributing to client behavior problems. We discuss the function of attributing in the context of behavior therapy and interpret the...

The present investigation aims to analyze the effect of motivation on students’ causal attributions choose or abandon chemistry when it first becomes optional in secondary education curriculum Spain. Attributions family and teacher classroom methodology were found be common predictors choice all students sample. However, our analyses point a significant other types attributions. In case at-risk...

The present study examined the role of attributions to discrimination and competence in predicting depression among a sample of 93 Latino/a adults. The major findings showed that attributions to discrimination were related to decreases in both general competence and intercultural competence, which were in turn associated with increases in depressive symptoms. This pattern of results suggests th...

In explaining the effectiveness of a human resource (HR) system within an organization, scholars have turned their attention to HR attributions, which capture employees' perceptions about intentions behind organization's practices, and demonstrated that system's content process communication drive employees form specific attributions. However, current research has not yet explained why attribut...

Workplace stress can cause serious physical and mental illness result in billions of dollars lost productivity every year. Researchers have called for the development frameworks through which Human Resource Management (HRM) practices reduce employee stress. Building on HRM attribution theory, this study builds a framework based benevolent attributions. Benevolent attributions are beliefs that t...

Children with developmental delays (DD) are at risk for developing behavior problems. Research suggests that parents' causal attributions for child behavior are related to parenting. This study investigated this association in parents of children with DD compared to parents of typically developing (TD) children. It specifically focused on attributions of child control by separating these from a...

OBJECTIVE: The present study examined mean level similarities and differences as well as correlations between mothers' and fathers' attributions regarding successes and failures in caregiving situations and progressive versus authoritarian attitudes in Jordan. DESIGN: Interviews were conducted with both mothers and fathers in 112 families. RESULTS: There were no significant main effects of ge...

BACKGROUND Career maturity is an important parameter as nursing undergraduates prepare for their future careers. However, little is known regarding the relationships between attributions, future time perspective and career maturity among nursing undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of career maturity and its relationship with attributions and future time persp...