Suggestions for Improving Your Attribution Beliefs

Here are some helpful methods and suggestions for you to generate and maintain controllable attribution beliefs. These, in turn, will contribute to high motivation:

• Attribute academic outcomes to factors over which you have control.

• Don't blame factors over which you have no control.

• Take responsibility for your studying and learning.

• Think about how blaming controllable factors influences your goals and motivation.

• Think about how blaming uncontrollable factors influences your goals and motivation.

Focusing on taking responsibility for your learning also relates to the next section about internal versus external motivation. By taking responsibility for your own studying and learning, you are striving to create your own motivation for succeeding in college. While reading this next section, think about how important it is for you to take responsibility for achieving your goals and maintaining your motivation.