RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTRIBUTIONS FOR SUCCESS AND FAILURE AND SELF-ESTEEM, HOPELESSNESS, AND DEPRESSION IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS / ODNOS ATRIBUCIJA USPJEHA I NEUSPJEHA SA SAMOPOŠTOVANJEM, BEZNADNOŠĆU I DEPRESIVNOŠĆU KOD SREDNJOŠKOLACA

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The aim of this research was to examine the correlations between stability, internality, controllability and globality of the causes for good and poor grades, and self-esteem, hopelessness and depression on a sample of 295 first, second and third-grade secondary school students. Another objective was to determine whether grade attributions could explain a portion of variance of self-esteem, hopelessness and depression.
The results have shown that stable causes of poor grades are negatively correlated with self-esteem and positively correlated with hopelessness and depression, while the explanations of good grades are positively correlated with self-esteem and negatively with depression.
On the other hand, controllability of both poor and good grade causes was positively correlated with self-esteem and negatively with hopelessness and depression.
Also, attributing both poor and good grades to global causes has shown negative correlations with self-esteem and positive correlations with depression.
Apart from that, it was shown that controllability of poor grade causes, and stability and globality of good grade causes explained a significant portion of variance of self-esteem. The results have also shown that explaining both poor and good grades by controllable causes explains a significant portion of variance of hopelessness and depression, while controllable explanations of  good grades explain  only the variance of hopelessness.
Keywords: attributions of poor and good grades, globality, internality, controllability, stability
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SAŽETAK
Cilj rada bio je provjeriti povezanost stabilnosti, internalnosti, kontrolabilnosti i globalnosti uzroka loše i dobre ocjene sa samopoštovanjem, beznadnošću i depresivnošću na uzorku 295 učenika prvih, drugih i trećih razreda srednje škole. Također cilj je bio provjeriti mogu li  atribucije loše i dobre ocjene objasniti dio varijance samopoštovanja, beznadnosti i depresivnosti.
Rezultati su pokazali da je objašnjavanje loše ocjene stabilnim uzrocima negativno povezano sa samopoštovanjem, a pozitivno s beznadnošću i depresivnošću, a objašnjavanje dobre ocjene na isti način je pozitivno povezano sa samopoštovanjem, a negativno s depresivnošću.
S druge strane, kontrolabilnost uzroka loše i dobre ocjene pozitivno je povezana sa samopoštovanjem, a negativno s beznadnošću i depresivnošću.
Također, atribuiranje loše i dobre ocjene globalnim uzrocima pokazalo je negativne korelacije sa samopoštovanjem, a pozitivnu s depresivnim simptomima.
Osim toga, pokazalo se da su značajni prediktori samopoštovanja kontrolabilnost uzroka loše ocjene, te stabilnost i globalnost uzroka dobre ocjene. Također, rezultati su pokazali da objašnjavanje loše ocjene kontrolabilnim uzrocima objašnjava značajan postotak varijance beznadnosti i depresivnosti, a objašnjavanje dobre ocjene takvim uzorcima objašnjava samo varijancu beznadnosti.
Ključne riječi: atribucije loše i dobre ocjene, globalnost,  internalnost, kontrolabilnost, stabilnost