Attribution theory, confidence, self efficacy, leadership

• • Attribution - process of giving reasons for behaviour and giving causes for events
• locus of causality - performance outcome by internal and external factors
• Internal factors - ability and effort
• External factors - task difficulty , luck
• Locus of stability- performance outcome caused by stable and unstable factors
• Stable factors - ability , task difficulty
• unstable factors - effort , luck
• High achievers - attribute success to internal factors , and failure to external factors
• Low achievers - success to external factors , failure to internal factors
• Attribution retraining - change a person’s tendency to ascribe reasons