The comparison of attribution styles and emotional intelligence among the successful and unsuccessful female high school students in Ahvaz, controllin Cover Image

The comparison of attribution styles and emotional intelligence among the successful and unsuccessful female high school students in Ahvaz, controllin
The comparison of attribution styles and emotional intelligence among the successful and unsuccessful female high school students in Ahvaz, controllin

Author(s): Banafshe Hasanvand, Mahnaz Rezai Nasab, Afsaneh Rezai Nasab
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: SciPress Ltd.
Keywords: successful student; unsuccessful student; attribution styles; emotional intelligence; intelligence

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the present study was comparing attribution styles and emotional intelligence of the successful and unsuccessful female high school students in Ahvaz, controlling for the intelligence. The population of this study consisted of the successful and unsuccessful female high school students in Ahvaz. The sample of successful and unsuccessful students consisted of 50 high school students each group, who were selected randomly by multi stage sampling method. The instruments used in this study were the Attribution Styles Questionnaire (ASQ) of Seligman and Sing, Self-Rated Emotional Intelligence Inventory (SREII) of Schutt, Raven Standard Progressive Matrices and the grade point average of the students. Also, MANCOVA test was used for analyzing the data. The result of MANCOVA revealed that there was significant differences between in successful and unsuccessful students attribution styles (and its subscales) of the. Also, negative attribution style of the unsuccessful students was more than that of successful group, but positive attribution style of the successful group was more than that of unsuccessful students. In addition, there was significant difference between successful and unsuccessful students’ emotional intelligence (and its subscales).

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 57-70
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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