Causal Attributions and Reading Achievement : Individual Differences in Low - Income Families  

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O'sullivan, Julia ; Howe, Mark L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Educational Psychology vol. 21 no. 04 (Oct. 1996), page 363-387.
Topik: attributions; low income families; individual differences; reading achievement; attributions

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In this study the development of causal attributions about reading within low-income families was examined. Specifically, relations between children's reading achievement and their causal attributions were investigated as well as relations between the children's attributions about themselves and their parents' attributions about them. A total 513 students from Grades 3, 6, and 9, and one parent of each student, all from low-income families, participated. Students and parents independently rated the importance of seven causal variables (effort, intellectual ability, liking for reading, the teacher, help at home, difficulty of reading material, and luck) for the students' good and poor reading outcomes. The major findings were that : (a) at each grade, students' attributions were reliably related to their reading achievement on the Gates-MacGinitie reading comprehension test, with attributions to ability, liking for reading, and help at home especially critical, (b) at each grade, parent attributions were reliably associated with student attributions, and (c) as students' grade in school increased, they focused more on themselves and less on others as causal determinants of their reading performance. The implications of these findings for research and education are discussed.

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