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attribution theory

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attribution theory
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(Psychology) Psychol the theory that tries to explain how people link actions and emotions to particular causes, both internal and external


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Using attribution theory to understand the social and academic motivation in African American youth.
Attribution theory (Weiner, 1985) suggests that people differ in the degree to which they believe they have personal control over the positive and negative events in their lives.
The application of Weiner's (1986) attribution theory to the career decision-making domain has led to the following propositions: Someone who believes that career decision making is susceptible to internal, dynamic, and controllable forces is likely to believe that career-related events and decisions are the result of internal factors within her or his control that can be changed with varying degrees of effort (i.
 
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