By Ivanka on Sunday, October 18, 1998 - 10:35 pm:
By going through this site, it seems to me that attributional style is your attitude on what causes certain events to happen in your life and wether you give more credit to external or internal forces. Atributional style is related to self-concept because it determines wether or not you feel like you have control of your life or if some other uncontrollable force is acting for you. The test told me that If you believe that you are responsible for your successes and failures, you will be more motivated in life. If you take control and make things happen for yourself, you can give yourself the credit you deserve and use that positive addition to your self esteem in order to help you try towards your next goal. If you constantly attribute the happenings in your life to some outside force, you will not be motivated to do good things for youself in your life such as study in order to get good marks. You will take a more passive approach to life which will not help you succeed. If you are someone who has a more extroverted style, it would benefit you to change to become more introverted. This would allow you to give yourself the credit you deserve and feel better about your accomplishments.
By Mike on Sunday, October 18, 1998 - 10:43 pm:
I found this site really interesting. It told me about my beleifs on success and failure. My cousin and I both answered the questions seperately and came up with almost the exact same overall scores (60 & 61). Even our subscores were no different that 5 to 12 points. My cousin is 5 years younger than me and raised in a small town, yet our scores were so similiar I feel there must be some kind of relationship. I figure it probably has to do with the fact that our mothers are sisters and probably have the same kind of attitudes. I guess my grandparents taught my parents (and my cousins parents) their beliefs and then passed them on to us. I seldom see my younger cousin, and I couldn't have any influence on him, nor could my surroundings. I really expected his scores to be the opposite of mine. So it seems we are a product of our parents.