Anxiety and Attribution as Predictors of Non-Completion of a Course
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 45 (2) , 413-414
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.45.2.413
Abstract
16 non-persisters in an individualized mastery approach of introductory psychology in a community college had significantly higher initial state anxiety than 26 persisters, but there was no significant difference in trait anxiety. Non-persisters were also significantly higher than persisters in attributions for achievement to external context.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Misattribution for failure and enhancement of achievement strivings.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1975
- Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent ResearchReview of Educational Research, 1975