A Study On The Effect Of Attribution Training On Junior High School Students With Low Self-esteem

Self-esteem is individuals'global evaluation and emotional experience of the value and function of their own, which is obtained in the process of their development. It is a kind of attitude experience towards oneself. Attributional style refers to individual incline to reason that incident happened traditionally, with distinction characteristic. It is evaluated through individual judgments to a lot of reasons that incident happened. There is close relation between self-esteem and attributional style, however, the study conclusion are inconsistent.In this study, junior high school students are used to be research object. We investigate the relation between self-esteem and attributional style. On the basis of the investigation, the study conducts attribution training on junior high school students with low self-esteem. We attempt to explore the effect of attribution training on attributional style and the level of self-esteem and seek for an effective approach to enhance the level of self-esteem of junior high school students.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:1. Junior high school students with different level of self-esteem have different attributional style. The students with high self-esteem attribute academic success more to internal effort factor, less to simplicity of the work and good luck; and attribute academic failure more to effort factor. The students with low self-esteem attribute academic success more to simplicity of the work and good luck; and attribute academic failure more to low abilities. The attributional style of the students with low self-esteem is unreasonable and unscientific correspondingly.2. After the training, students with low self-esteem attribute academic failure more to effort factor and difficulty of the work, less to low abilities. This indicates that attribution training has positive effect on attributional style on academic failure. However, it has no...