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

Abstract

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)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119044

Entities

People

  • Gerardo Marin
  • Harry C. Triandis
  • Hector Betancourt
  • Yoshihisa Kashima

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Minority Groups
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Marine Ecological Systems Migration
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Organizational Psychology.