Responses to successful and unsuccessful performance: The moderating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between performance and attributions

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 286-299

  Silver, William S ^a   Mitchell, Terence R ^b   Gist, Marilyn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0000528847     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/obhd.1995.1051     Document Type: Article

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