Attributions of Success and Failure among Hispanic and Mainstream Navy Recruits.

摘要

Forty-nine mainstream and 41 Hispanic male Navy recruits responded to a questionnaire consisting of 16 items in which they were asked to make a judgment, on a 7 point scale (true-to-false), about the likelihood that particular causal explanations might be valid in the case of eight success and eight failure events. While the outcome (success-failure) produced large differences in the attributions there were no differences traceable to ethnicity. Both groups took much credit for success, i.e., showed a self-serving bias. These results are consistent with previous research in this project which found only minor differences between Hispanic and Mainstream Navy recruits. (Author)