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Attributional Tendencies - Cultures

 

As we are Human beings, we can fail because we are not perfect, that is why we are always trying to hardly understand why something happened in that way or how to improve it.

It is something about people's psyche, and we act unconsciously about these Attributional tendencies.

Attributional tendencies are inferences we make upon something that happened to us, a problem or behavior, it is, in other words, the cause we find for a problem.

This is another important aspect of culture; Attributions vary in all countries. Americans make Internal attributions when they do something good, and an external attribution when something negative happens and we attribute that failure to others because it is due to their fault and not ours.

We all need to take care of our Attributions, our inferences of the things and experiences we have to live. People need support in these cases, especially students, who are trying hard to understand life experiences.

Assessments in class and students' performance can provoke stress and anxiety if students don't manage them with special support.

 

We can classify Attributions into 4 categories, they are: Internal or External, and Stable or Unstable.

-Internal attributions: People infer that something happened due to personal factors.

-External attributions: People infer that behavior is due to situational factors.

-Stable: Something is due to unchanging factors.

-Unstable: Due to temporary factors.

 

Often, all we guess is always wrong, in the desire to learn from our failures or bad experiences (most of the time are negative experiences) we infer in a wrong way being biased people.

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