Atribuições e causalidade e estratégias autoprejudiciais de alunos do curso de formação de professores / Causal attributions and self-handicappin strategies of students of teacher trainingcourse

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

05/04/2011

RESUMO

Scholars of Psychology and Education advocate that the goal of present education should be to develop whitin the students the ability to be self-regulated. The present research aimed to investigate two aspects of self-regulation, which are causal attributions and the use of self-handicapping strategies of 164 students of both genders, 18 to 48 years old, enrolled in the second and fourth- year of Pedagogy course at Brazilian public universities. To collect data were used four instruments: two of them consisting of two discursive questions and two Likert scales. These were related to the use of self-handicapping strategies in the academic context, the causal attributions of students, the attributional dimensions and the emotions related to them. The objective results were analyzed according to the procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics. The discursive data were evaluated using content analysis and counting the frequency of responses in categories. The results indicated that students reported using of several self-handicapping strategies in the academic context, primarily the procrastination and the not-reading of theoretical texts. Regarding to causal attributions, the students declared that success is predominantly triggered by effort, raising feelings of satisfaction and happiness. The causes most mentioned for failure were lack of motivation and lack of effort. The feelings associated with them were frustration, guilt and sadness. It was observed that participants who reported a frequent use of self-handicapping strategies were those who attributed failure to internal causes and success to external causes. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of investigating the beliefs and behaviors related to academic performance of college students, especially those in the teachers training courses.

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auto-regulação atribuição de casualidade crenças estudantes de pedagogia procrastinação self-regulation attribution of causality beliefs students of pedagogy course procrastination

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