They attributed failures to the lack of a porous-coated surface providing biologic fixation [ 39].
25] These findings are consistent with Weiner's [ 26] assertion that attributing failure to lack effort - an internal, unstable, and controllable attribution - results in lower self-concepts.
They may make more modest attributions — attributing success to both internal and external factors as well as attributing failure to internal factors and external factors.
For failure attribution, there is an interaction effect between result publicity (public or private) and attribution type (internal or external), such that in a public context, people attribute failure more to external factors than to themselves, while in a private context, people attribute failure to both internal and external factors.
I attribute failure to a poor upbringing, where parents or guardians might not have stressed education.
Prof Jürgen Beckmann, the university's chair of sports psychology who will be presenting the research, said: "Individual athletes attribute failure more to themselves than team sports athletes.
To protect their self-esteem, individuals tend to attribute failure externally rather than internally.
Secondly, the results suggest that individuals tend to attribute failure more to external factors than to themselves in a public context, that is, they attribute failure less to themselves in a public context than in a private context.
Some studies have found that people attribute failure to external factors (Snyder, Stephan, & Rosenfileld, 1976) and others suggest that people attribute failure to internal factors (Ross et al., J Pers Soc Psychol 29 609 618,1974).
Also, results suggest that people attribute failure less to themselves in a public context than in a private context.
