Abstract
This study aims to investigate Turkish and English university students' academic attributional styles (AAS) and examine to what extent self-efficacy and gender predict AAS in each culture. Data were collected from 159 Turkish and 102 English students by survey. The results of ANCOVA revealed that British students have more pessimistic (internal, stable, global) attributions in explanations of negative events compared to Turkish students. Countrybased hierarchical regression results showed that women have more pessimistic AAS than men for Turkish sample, but gender did not make any significant contribution to the prediction of AAS for English sample. In both countries, self-efficacy failed to predict AAS. Some possible reasons for the results and suggestions for future studies are discussed.
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