The Relationship of Gender, Gender-Related Traits, and Achievement Orientation to Achievement Attributions: A Study of Subject-Selected Accomplishments

• Published in: Journal of personality Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 687 - 710
• Main Author: Gaeddert, William P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.1987; Blackwell; Duke University Press
• Subjects: Achievement; Attribution; Behavior. Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; College Students; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gender; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social psychology; Ability; Human; Sex; Behavior; Achievement; Student; Performance; Attribution; Gender role

ABSTRACT Female and male college students (N= 251 and 84, respectively) described important accomplishments in their lives and reported attributions for the causes of their success Regression analyses indicated that, as predicted, students' gender explained a small portion of the variance in at...