Locus de controle e comparação social na atribuição de causalidade por crianças
Feres, Nelma de Abreu e Lima
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Resumo
This study represents the first attempt at relating Rotter's social learning theory (1966) to Festinger's theory of social comparison. It is also the first study known with Brazilian subjects, which utilized children as subjects in research about locus of control and social comparison. The objective of this study was to test the hypotheses that: (a) the locus of control, the opportunity of social comparison and the performance of outcome (success' versus failure) affect causal attribution regarding performance on a task; and (b) internal locus of control subjects have future expectancies of performance which are more similar to their own previous performance than to the group performance, regardless of sucess or failure in the previous situation, whereas external locus of control subjects have expectancies which are more similar to the peer group's than to their own previous performance, regardless of sucess or failure in the previous situation. The conclusions of this study were: (a) causal attribution, as formulated by Rotter (1966) is verified with Brazilian subjects, specifically with Brazilian children; (b) in the sucessful performances internals and externals subjects did not differ in assuming personal credit for success; (c) social comparison operates for internals as accentuating of the locus of control in the success situation and as modifying of the locus of control in the failure situation, and the opposite occurs with the external subjects; (d) the relating of the constructs of locus of control and social comparison is valid; and (e) regarding prediction of future outcomes (expectancies), the role of social comparison is that of accentuating locus of control.
Ficha do documento
- Tipo
- Dissertação
- Ano
- 1981
- Instituição
- Fundação Getulio Vargas
- Fonte
- Repositório da FGV
- Idioma
- Português
- Acesso
- Não informado
- Identificador
- oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/9233
- Palavras-chave
- PsicologiaLocus de controleAtribuição de causalidade
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