I was quite interested in the discussion about Seligman, as I am starting on the chapter on Motivation these days. I am teaching at a "Lycée" in Switzerland, (which would roughly be equivalent to last year high school and first year college). I introduce them to Seligman's experiments and it really speaks to them. But concerning "expanatory style", I prefer to introduce the related concepts along with the cognitive dimensions of motivation. And I thought the concepts of internality, stability and globality were introduced by Wiener:
Wiener B. (1972). "Attribution, preceiving the causes of the behavior". Morristown, NJ General Learning Press Weiner, B. (1974). Achievement motivation and attribution theory. Morristown, N.J.: General Learning Press. Weiner, B. (1980). Human Motivation. NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Weiner, B. (1986). An attributional theory of motivation and emotion. New York: Springer-Verlag. Can anyone correct me on this? Phil Gervaix Lycée de Burier 1820 Montreux Switzerland > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: RE: Seligman's Explanatory Style > From: "Lilienfeld, Scott O" <slil...@emory.edu> > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:07:11 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 10 > > Gary et al.: Seligman's attributional model has been presented and > tested in many peer review articles over the past three decades, e.g., > > Abrahamson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E. P., & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). > Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. Journal > of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 49¨74. > > (just noticed that this article has been cited a whopping 4181 > times according to Google Scholar). > > In dozens of published studies, the stability and globality > attributional dimensions have held up well as correlates of > depression, the internality dimension somewhat less so (although > admittedly I haven't tracked this literature all that closely of > late). There is, as Gary notes, lively debate about causal > directionality. Lauren Alloy and others have conducted > longitudinal studies of these dimensions as predictors of > depression in high risk samples; such studies may strengthen the > argument for causal directionality, although of course they do not > demonstrate it definitively given the inherent logical problem with > post-hoc ergo hoc conclusions. > > ...Scott > > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
