Gender differences in performance attributions: Students' explanations for personal success or failure

UnHope20 · 2021-08-19T01:06:04+00:00

male and female college students made effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty attributions for their performance on a recent course examination. Measures of the students' affective reactions toward their performance were also obtained.

Successful students, whether male or female, made internal attributions and were pleased with their performance. Stronger internal attributions were associated with more positive affective reactions for these students.

Unsuccessful female students made external attributions, were displeased with their performance, and felt better when they attributed their failure to unstable factors.

Unsuccessful male students were also displeased with their performance, but tended to make more internal attributions for their failure, and felt better as a result.

These findings, which suggest the influence of an internality bias among men, rather than an externality bias among women, were interpreted in terms of the male sex role.

DanteLivra · 2021-08-19T18:02:48+00:00

This is an interesting study because it kinda points to a major MRM issue.

The fact that women are not expected to take accountability for their actions. They blame others or the system while men are socialized in a way that makes them accountable for what they do, they learn really fast that the only thing they have control over is themselves and they will work on themselves before blaming others.

This is not true of every man and woman, but it is a growing trend.

Title	Gender differences in performance attributions: Students' explanations for personal success or failure
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	12
Comments	11
Date	August 19, 2021 1:03 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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