Abstract
In achievement motivation research, recent years have witnessed the wide-spread popularity of attributional framework, ali due to Bernard Weiner. His theory, however, has been greatly modified and extended by himself as well as criticized in terms of some methodological difficulties and confusions. Also a need to clarify his framework in comparison with other achievement motivation theories using attributional concepts has been felt. This paper reviews Weiner's theoretical advancement and its related studies; it also stretches the methodological problems concerning the measurement of attribution and the definition of some key concepts, while examining the relationship to Rotter's social learning theory and Seligman's learned helplessness theory. Finally, a couple of future research orientations are proposed.
