Today I had a bad day. As a result I will use attribution theory to figure out what went wrong. More specifically I will use Kelley’s covariation theory; this theory states that in order to explain behavior we must look at all the factors involved. In order to figure out why my day went bad, I will analyze the situation and see whether there is consensus, distinctiveness and consistency. The first event of my day was that I overslept. In trying to find consensus, I’d say that others would also say that this is a bad start to the day. Therefore, it has a high level of consensus. When applying the concept of distinctiveness, I’d say that I don’t usually react to sleeping in a bad way. If we want to look at other stimuli I usually don’t act to many stimuli in a negative way. I would give today’s situation a high level of distinctiveness. Finally, to look at the consistency of the situation, I would not have thought of sleeping in as a bad thing if it had been on a different day. For example, if I had slept in on Sunday I would not have minded at all. Therefore, this situation has a low consistency and is attributed to the circumstance. Therefore, I blame my bad day on the circumstance that I overslept and I was thrown off the whole day. Hopefully, I will not sleep in again on a school day.
References:
Kelley, H.H. (1967). Attribution in social psychology. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 15, 192-238.
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