Causal Model of the Relationship among Causal Attribution Behavior of Learned Helplessness and Academic Adjustment

Abstract

This study aimed at detecting the causal relations between causal attribution, learned helplessness and academic adjustment through a proposed model based on cognitive principles using Path Analysis to explain academic adjustment. To achieve this aim, a sample of (350) students from Yarmouk University were exposed to learned helplessness scale, academic adjustment scale, and (Lefcort, 1979) scale of causal attribution. The findings showed that the causal attribution for both internal and unstable reasons was high levels as well as the academic adjustment, while the external attribution and the negative impression of the student which is one of the learned helplessness have been classified as a low level. Also, the casual model that was chosen to be the best according to the highest explained value 0.81. was the hypothetical model