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The 24-item Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale: Achievement was administered to 74 academically gifted students enrolled in the University of Arizona's Precollege Program for Gifted and Talented Students. Attributions for academic success or failure to ability, effort, context, and luck were examined. Data supported predictions derived from attribution theory that academic success would be attributed to ability and effort, and academic failure would be attributed to lack of effort.
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