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Peer reviewedMurray, Carolyn B.; Warden, M. Robert – Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Presents questionnaire results concerning self-handicapping, course-related expectancies, and study habits. Reports that self-handicappers were more likely than others to make external and unstable attributions. Concludes that the underlying cognitive mechanism of self-handicapping strategies is a defensive attributional pattern that protects an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Defense Mechanisms, Educational Research, Fear of Success
