Study On The Attributional Style Of University Students And Its' Relation With Mental Health, Creativity, Future Achievement Ability

Attribution is a cognitive process, in which one determines the cause of a result by perceiving, thinking, and reasoning. The result of an attributing would affect the emotion, motivation, and afterward activity of the attributor. After many times' attributing, one could have his distinctive attributional style. So, study on the attributional style of university students not only let us knowing more about their mental state, but also instruct them to get scientific and correct attributional style, improve the level of their mental health, and promote the healthy developing of their individuality.Based on the review of the intension of attribution and attributional style, the antecedents and development of attributional style, this paper studied two questions. That is: 1. Referring the ways that other scholar had used to draw up an attributional style questionnaire, and test 368 university students with it. 2. To investigated the relation between the university students' attributional style and their characteristic of mental health, creativity, and future achievement ability. The result showed that: 1. University students all tend to make an internal, global, controllable attribution when facing a positive situation, and an internal, specific, controllable attribution when facing a negative situation. 2.Male university students tend to make an internal, global, controllable attribution when facing a positive situation, so as the females. Male university students tend to make an external, specific, controllable attribution when facing a negative situation, while the females an internal, specific, controllable attribution. 3.University students from cities tend to make an internal, specific, controllable attribution when facing a negative situation while the students from countryside an internal, more specific, controllable attribution. They made the sameattribution when facing a positive situation. 4.There is not significant difference between the attributions of different majors and singleton or not. S.There are significantnegative correlation between the personality attributes of mental health and the dimensions of internal-external, global-specific, controllable-uncontrollable of negative situation. There are significant positive correlation between the personality attributes of creativity and the dimensions of internal-external, controllable-uncontrollable of positive situation. And there are significant correlation between the personality attributes of future achievement ability and each dimension of two situations except the dimension of internal-external of negative situation. At last, according to the result of this study, this paper gave some suggestions to the forming of a better attributional style of the university students as follows: 1.Developing a positive rational attribution habit to keep and promote university students' mental healthier. 2.Taking advantage of the results of study of attributional style to cultivate the productivity and future achievement ability of oneself. 3.Teachers should bring his leading role into full play to guide the students to attribute correctly.