The Efficiency of Training Objective Management on Attribution Styles among Students of Islamic Azad University, Hamedan

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 27 - 34, 30.06.2017

Esfandiary Zahra

Abstract

One of the methods useful in
improving the targeting of the people, using the management approach that
emphasized the role of cognitive processes such as attribution styles.
Therefore, this study aimed to target management training on attribution styles
among students of Islamic Azad University, Hamedan. Quasi-experiment was
conducted. The study population included all students of Islamic Azad
University, Hamedan are the 2014- 2015 school year. The sample in this research
includes 30 people of Azad University students, Hamedan that have chosen in
clustered multi- stages and then divided to two control and experiment groups
randomly and equally. Therefore, there are 15 people in each class as
experimental group and 15 other ones as control group. Measurement tools are
documentary styles, Sligman documentary questionnaires (1982). The results show
that aim management training has positive and negative attribution styles. In
addition, this training causes improvement of positive attribution styles and
decreasing negative attribution styles among students. 

Keywords

Training aim management, positive attribution styles, negative attribution styles.

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