Effects of Success and Failure on Children's Perceptions of Internal-External Locus of Control
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13917381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Cunningham (corresponding author), Harold B Gerard, Norman Miller (0000-0002-8248-1199) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0301-2212 • E-ISSN: 1179-6391 |
| Publisher | Scientific Journal Publishers Limited (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2224/sbp.1978.6.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W1997582209 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Little attention has been devoted to the effects of childhood achievement experiences as they might determine generalized internal-external control orientations (I-F). It was hypothesized that chronic success or failure on intellectual tasks will lead to expectancies of internal or external control, respectively. Nine- and ten-year-old school children were presented with a competitive dot-counting task in which success and failure were manipulated. Pre- and post-measures were taken on an itemized I-E instrument derived from three previously used scales. Post-measures were generally unaffected by the success-failure manipulation. However, children who actually performed poorly on the task displayed a more external control orientation than did those who had performed well. Further analysis of the I-F items revealed that those who had actually performed poorly were most likely to attribute their achievement experiences in general to luck. These findings were interpreted as providing a bridge between study of a personality trait (I-E) and the attributional analysis of achievement events
Achievement Orientation · Attribution · Control (management · Developmental psychology · Locus of control · Luck · Need for achievement · Perception · Personality · Task (project management · Trait · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cognitive Abilities and Testing · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Causal attributions for success and failure
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |