ATTRIBUTIONAL TENDENCIES
Attributions are conclusions that people use to justify events or
behaviors. They can be Internal or External. Internal attributions relate the
consequences of some behavior or event to personal factors. For example, if a
student gets an A on a test, he/she will conclude that it happens because
he/she studied hard and consequently, he/she deserves this grade. External
attributions relate the consequences of same behavior or event to situational
factors. For example, if a student gets an A on a test, he/she will conclude
that it happened because he/she had great teachers, consequently, his/her
teachers deserve the merit.
Cultures can influence attributional tendencies.
People from individualist cultures tend to show internal attributions on their
success and external attributions on their failures. On the other hand, people
from collectivist cultures tend to demonstrate external attributions on success
situations and internal attributions on failure ones.
Knowing these differences can help us avoid wrong
judgments. Sometimes, a low grade of students in a test is justified by the
pressure that they suffer at home, even by themselves, and not because they did
not study.
Keeping these attributional tendencies in mind, as
teachers, we can help our students the best way to deal with their success and
failures without harming people around them.
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