Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the attributions of children with mothers' attributions and children's predictions of their mothers' attributions for children's school performances. Subjects were 76 boys and 94 girls in seventh grade and their mothers. The questionnaire was composed of 8 items and each item had 4 response options to evaluate factors of ability, effort, task difficulty, or luck. Four items were related to good school performance and the other four to poor performance. Children and mothers attributed both good and poor school performances to effort. Several tendencies of children's causal attribution were congruent with the tendencies in children's predictions of their mothers' attributions but were not related to mothers' actual attributions.
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