Abstract
Abstract Although Bandura (1986) has suggested that cognitive motivators such as self-efficacy cognitions and causal attributions might be causally related, there has been little effort to examine such a relationship within the motor behavior domain. The present investigation attempted to determine whether manipulated self-efficacy and children's causal attributions for performance in a competitive bicycle ergometer were related. Self-efficacy cognitions were found to be significantly related to perceptions of success on the task and to stable and controllable attributions. The results suggest that efficacy cognitions, formed as a function of consistent patterns of behavior, play an important role in the formation of causal attributions independent of the subject's perception of the achievement outcome.
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AttributionPsychologyCognitionPerceptionCausality (physics)Developmental psychologySelf-efficacySocial psychology
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- 150
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- 65-73
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Edward McAuley,
Terry E. Duncan,
Mary McElroy
(1989).
Self-Efficacy Cognitions and Causal Attributions for Children's Motor Performance: An Exploratory Investigation.
The Journal of Genetic Psychology
, 150
(1)
, 65-73.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.1989.9914576
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- 10.1080/00221325.1989.9914576