Ss who were classified in high and low n Ach groups, were asked to rate the degree to which a task outcome of a to-be-judged person was attributable to each of four causal elements. Some information about the task outcome and the expectation of success or failure at a task were given to Ss prior to their causal attributional judgments. The attribution scores on each of the causal elements for each condition of outcome were analyzed separately. Analyses of the data yielded two interesting findings, viz., attributional cognitive patterns are a function of the level of achievement motivation and are also a function of the degree of discrepancy between expectation and outcome.
Les auteurs tirent deux hypothèses de la théorie de McClelland, selon laquelle les taux rapides de développement économique sont sous‐tendus par un fort besoin de réussite. La première hypothèse pose que les étudiants des pays à forte croissance économique manifesteront une préférence pour les affaires, et la seconde qu'ils se sentiront plus concernés par la réussite professionnelle. Les recherches ont lieu au Japon et en Israel, pays à forte croissance économique, en Grande‐Bretagne et en Irlande, pays à faible croissance économique, sur des échantillons d'étudiants mâles d'université. Les résultats ne confirment pas la première hypothèse, mais confirment la seconde.
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