Abstract

FARIA, Luísa. Desenvolvimento intra-individual das atribuições e dimensões causais durante a adolescência. Psicologia [online]. 1996, vol.11, n.2-3, pp.121-137. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v11i2/3.606.

The analysis of intra-individual development of attributional dimensions of locus of causality, stability, controllability and influence/importance of the causes for success and failure, and of the influence of inter-individual patterns (sex, school grade, area of residence and socio economical status) in the intra-individual change, in the scope of a longitudinal sequential design, evidenced the absence of evolution with time of these motivational variables, as well as the absence of influence of the inter-individual variables in intra-individual change, contrarily to our predictions. These results led to the analysis of the motivational characteristics of the «lost» subjects in the longitudinal study, and of those that remained in the study, that could explain the absence of any kind of evolution in the attributional dimensions. The hypothesis of «school selection» of those students with specific attributional patterns (external and uncontrollable causes), was raised to explain the results. This hypothesis reinforces the importance of introducing deliberate psychological intervention in the school context, in order to promote the development of more adequate strategies to deal with failure and with the evaluative pressure of the competitive school context.

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