Parents' Attribution Model To Low Academic Achievement Of Their Children And The Relation Between Attribution Model And Parents' Educational Achievement Goals

The present study mainly discussed parents' attribution, emotion and action toward theirchildren who are low academic achieving on the basis of interpersonal attribution theory. Atthe same time, based on achievement goal theory, the researchers explored the relationbetween parents educational achievement goals and parents' attribution model.The research included two parts:In study one, to collect some data of attribution, emotion and action,219 participantswhose children were low academic achievers from primary and middle school completedquestionnaire, then established parents' attribution model.In study two, the researchers explored the relation between parents' educationalachievement goals and parents' attribution model.An interview was used to understand more deeply how parents coped with their lowacademic achieving children.Results indicated:1. When parents contributed low academic achievement to students themselves, it wascorrelated to parents' disappointment, anxiousness, sadness and the feeling of anger. Theparents feeling of anger could cause them punish or help their children.2. When parents attributed low academic achievement to exterior reasons such as families,parents were sure of improving students' achievement, then parents could encourage andhelp their children.3. The research verified this sequence from the dimension of reason:causeothers'directed emotion action.4. The parents who had performance-avoidance goal expressed disappointed emotion.In a word, interpersonal attribution model will be affected by the relation between doer andobserver. The same attribution could bring different emotion and action due to differentrelation.