Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2002

Seiten: 44-55

Zeitschrift: Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht

Bandnummer: 49

Heftnummer: 1

ISSN: 0342-183X

Verlag: Reinhardt

Abstract: 
Several Studies demonstrated, that females shock a less favorable pattern of causal attributions concerning their achievement on computers in comparison to males. In the, studies causes were attributed post-hoc to relevant dimensions. This procedure is problematic in the light of findings on individual differences in the dimensional perception of causes. The present two studies evaluate gender differences in computer-related attributions by assessing the person's dimensional perception of causes for success and failure on computers. In study (1 a) a computer-related attributions questionnaire was administered to 100 male and 100 female university students. The results show significant gender differences, but at first glance they are only partly consistent with the assumption of a depressogenic attributional pattern in females. A qualitative analysis of the perceived causes in study ( 1 b) shows that males and female prefer different causes in a specific failure-situation. Study (2) demonstrates that the cause preferred by females results in greater shame and lower expectation of success when compared with the cause preferred by males. The findings have several implications for attributional theories as well as for the development of interventions in the field of computers.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Dickhäuser, O. and Stiensmeier-Pelster, J. (2002) Learned helplessness in working with computers?: Gender differences in computer related attributions, PSYCHOLOGIE IN ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT, 49(1), pp. 44-55

APA-Zitierstil: Dickhäuser, O., & Stiensmeier-Pelster, J. (2002). Learned helplessness in working with computers?: Gender differences in computer related attributions. PSYCHOLOGIE IN ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT. 49(1), 44-55.