The Attributional Style and Self-esteem of Junior High-school Students with Anti-social Yearning

Abstract

An investigation of junior high-school students with anti-social yearning was carried out to examine the association of attributional style with self-esteem and inconsistent frame-works of cognition (consisted of 4 items) as measured by An attribution scale based on Weiner's attribution theory and self-esteem scale for adolescents which were newly made by this researcher.

Analyses revealed that junior high-school students with anti-social yearning attributed significantly more to their own efforts and ability to make friends in case of acceptability of inter-personal relations than pro-social students, but in the rejected cases of it, they attributed to the associated others. They also exhibited a lower self-esteem than pro-social group by Rosen­berg's self-esteem scale and the self-esteem scale for adolescents. In this scale, though being lower in self-confident factor and in self-acceptability, they showed to be higher in self-affirmativeness compared with pro-social students. Co-relational analyses revealed that anti-social yearning was related to the attribution to their own efforts on accepted occasions. There were also significant relationships between anti-social yearning with low feeling-loved by parents, low self­acceptability, and ambivalent frame-works of cognition.

Specific perceptions to predict the associations with anti-social yearning in male students were the attribution to their own efforts in case of acceptance, the low feeling-loved by their parents and inconsistent frame-works of cognition. In female students, only the low feeling-loved which represented supportiveness of the emotional warmth in their family relationships, pre­dicted the associations with anti-social yearning.