Causal Attributions as Correlates of Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement

Table 4

Beta coefficients for dimensions of causal attributions on academic achievement.

	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	T	Sig.	95% CI		Collinearity statistics
	B	SE	Beta			LL	UL	Tol	VIF
(Constant)	46.01	4.53		10.17	0.00	37.13	54.91
ELCAS	0.47	0.16	0.23	2.87	0.00	0.15	0.78	0.21	4.71
ELCAF	0.03	0.21	0.02	0.14	0.89	−0.37	0.43	0.12	8.19
CAS	1.3	0.25	0.48	5.28	0.00	0.82	1.78	0.16	6.40
CAF	−0.78	0.28	−0.34	−2.82	0.00	−1.33	−0.24	0.09	10.75
SAS	−0.49	0.23	−0.23	−2.18	0.03	−0.94	−0.05	0.13	8.12
SAF	0.11	0.27	0.06	0.42	0.67	−0.42	0.65	0.08	13.19
UNSAS	−0.56	0.10	−0.27	−5.50	0.00	−0.77	−0.36	0.57	1.77
UNSAF	0.33	0.09	0.18	3.60	0.00	0.15	0.51	0.54	1.86

Note. CL = confidence interval; LL = lower limit; UL = upper limit; ELCAS = external locus of causality for success; ELCAF = external locus of causality for failure; CAS = controllable attribution for success; CAF = controllable attributions for failure; SAS = stable attributions for success; SAF = ctable attributions for failure; UNSAS = unstable attributions for success; UNSAF = unstable attributions for failure.