5/26/21 Attributional Tendencies

 

Attributing our successes or failures to ourselves or someone else is not only a personal trend but also a cultural one.

Professor Ivers tells us that the typical American will attribute his successes internally. However, when something negative happens to him, he will attribute it externally as blaming the parents or the teachers or the people who did not act well with them, this also happens in my social environment, I do not know if it is part of my culture but I have heard it many times, The opposite happens in Japan, they tend to attribute their success externally, recognizing that thanks to their parents, teachers, and friends they may have achieved success and internalize their failures by blaming themselves on them.

Recognizing the circumstances in which things happen helps us avoid the tendency to look guilty if we fail in our goals, I believe that our life progresses with successes and failures, when we succeed in our goals we must first be grateful to God who is with us in good times and bad, and when we fail, let us also be grateful because it gives us experience. we can stop and evaluate how we can improve to achieve our goals successfully. regretting or complaining or blaming others will only take time and effort to achieve success.

This background knowledge on attributional tendencies gives me a clearer picture of how to act in a classroom with different cultural tendencies in order to create an environment of tolerance towards their opinions.

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