Teoria da Atribuição: um estudo da atribuição da causalidade do desempenho acadêmico de alunos do Curso de Ciências Contábeis de uma Universidade Federal do Estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the attributional causes that students in the 3rd period in the discipline of Law and Commercial Accounting of the Accounting Sciences course of a Federal University of the State of Minas Gerais, associate their academic performance. For that, a quantitative and qualitative type of research was used; as for the technical procedures, the research was done through a survey, where it was applied a questionnaire and 51 answers were obtained. First, data were collected and analyzed separately according to the composite elements in the studied theory, in which it was looked for analyze if the association of the students to the attributional factors of its result interferes in themselves academic performance. The results showed that students tend to associate their academic performance with more predominance to internal causes (70%) such as effort, dedication and capacity, while only 30% associated with external causes such as previous performance, family environment and humor. Therefore, it is inferred that this research contributed as much to the educational institutions that they came to know better to which causes the students attribute their academic performance, as well as the students themselves to know the causes of its success or academic failure.