Academic attributional style, self-efficacy and gender: A cross-cultural comparison

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2008-01-01

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METİN CAMGÖZ, SELİN
ÖZKAN TEKTAŞ, ÖZNUR
Metin, Irem

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The relationships between academic attributional style (AAS), self-efficacy, gender and culture were investigated in this study. Three research questions "Is AAS influenced by self-efficacy, gender and culture?", "Does AAS operate in the same way in two different cultures?", and "How do AAS dimensions (internality, stability, globality) vary?" were examined with a sample of 261 university students studying in Turkey and Britain. Regression results showed that gender and culture were separately significant predictors of pessimistic AAS. However, self-efficacy did not add significantly to the prediction of AAS. Regarding AAS dimensions, MANOVA revealed a significant main effect of culture, suggesting that British students have more pessimistic attributional styles characterized by the internality dimension in explanations of negative events. Suggestions for future studies are discussed.

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Social Psychology

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67062

Journal

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY

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https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2008.36.1.97

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Department of Psychology, Article

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S. METİN CAMGÖZ, Ö. ÖZKAN TEKTAŞ, and I. Metin, “Academic attributional style, self-efficacy and gender: A cross-cultural comparison,” SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY, pp. 97–114, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67062.