Competitive versus Individualistic Goal Structures: The Salience of Past Performance Information for Causal Attributions and Affect.

Ames, Carole; Ames, Russell

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Publication Date: 1981-Jun

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Competitive versus Individualistic Goal Structures: The Salience of Past Performance Information for Causal Attributions and Affect.

Ames, Carole; Ames, Russell

Journal of Educational Psychology, v73 n3 p411-18 Jun 1981

The purpose of this study was to examine children's cognitive-attributional and affective response patterns within competitive and individualistic goal structures. Findings showed that effort attributions covaried with outcome in the individualistic structure, whereas luck and outcome covaried in the competitive structure. (Author/GK)

Descriptors: Ability, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Competition, Failure, Goal Orientation, Grade 5, Grade 6, Individual Needs, Intermediate Grades, Motivation, Success

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Language: English

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