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EFFECTS OF SELF-ESTEEM ON ATTRIBUTIONS OF OTHERS' SUCCESS OR FAILURE

This study aims at examining the effects of self-esteem on attributions of others' success or failure. Subiects were 180 7th grade pupils, whose self-esteem scores measured by a questionnaire were high (H-SEs), moderate (M-SEs), or low (L-SEs). Ss were informed of performances of 4 stimulus persons (SPs) on anagram tasks and asked to attribute each of them. Two SPs succeeded in all four trials, and the other two failed. Attributions were measured by 7-point ratings on each of 5 factors: ability, effort, task difficulty, luck, and physical and mental conditions. Then Ss performed anagram tasks and attributed their own performances.Major findings were as follows.1. H-SEs attributed SPs' success less intensely and SPs' failure more intensely to internal factors than M-SEs and L-SEs.2. Generally SPs' performances were attributed more intensely to intenal factors than to external factors, while the inverse relationship was found as to Ss' own performances.

K. Shikanai

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