Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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952044 | Journal of Research in Personality | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
This study examined whether growth motivation would attenuate the self-serving attribution. Previous studies found that people made more internal attributions for success than for failure and that people with high self-esteem made more external attributions for failure than those with low self-esteem. In this study, participants took a listening comprehension test and rated the extent to which a success or failure score was due to them. The score was randomly assigned. It was found that people with high self-esteem and high growth motivation made more internal attributions for failure than those with high self-esteem but low growth motivation. Implications for research on self-esteem were discussed.
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Authors
Sun W. Park, Jack J. Bauer, Nicole B. Arbuckle,