Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure.

Key Points

• This research aims to explore how the attribution of success or failure impacts emotional responses in achievement situations.
• Assessed outcome conditions of success and failure
• Examined internal versus external attributions of causal factors
• Utilized theoretical framework developed by B. Weiner et al.
• The outcome manipulation significantly influenced general affective reactions, showing increased positive affect in success conditions and negative affect in failure conditions.