What is Weiner's attribution theory?

Weiner's attribution theory is a kind of motivation theory about judging and explaining the causes of others' or their own behavior results. Weiner's attribution theory mainly has the following three arguments: human personality differences and success or failure experiences affect his attribution; A person's attribution to the last achievement will affect his expectations, emotions and efforts for the next achievement. Personal expectations, emotions and efforts have great influence on achievement behavior.

Weiner believes that education and training can change people's achievements and promote development. The focus of training is to educate people to believe that hard work and no hard work are very different.

Weiner divides the causes of success and failure into three dimensions from the perspective of cognitive psychology, which is more developed than Hyde's thought and helps people analyze the reasons of achievement behavior. He thinks that our attribution of success and failure will have a great influence on our future behavior.

If a person attributes his failure in the exam to lack of ability, then he will expect to fail in the exam in the future, because ability is a stable reason; If you attribute the failure in the exam to bad luck, you are unlikely to expect to fail in the exam in the future, because luck is an unstable reason.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Weiner Attribution Theory