Using attributional style to predict academic performance: How does it compare to traditional methods?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 723-730

  Bridges, K Robert ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributional style; Explanatory style; Predicting academic performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042407788     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00174-4     Document Type: Article

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