Attribution Training

Attribution training is a psychological training method that trainers use to change individuals’ original bad attribution style into a good one through a certain training procedure. The earliest attribution training was a laboratory experiment conducted by American psychologist Carol S Dweck in 1975, aimed to overcome children’s learned helplessness feeling. Since the twenty-first century, attribution training has been widely carried out in education, management, sports, clinical, and other fields.

The purpose of attribution training is to change individuals’ bad attribution into good attribution. Bad attribution is mainly manifested in two aspects: one is improper attribution of failure, such as “it seems that I am not a material for playing ball,” “I am good for nothing,” which will undermine self-confidence; the other is improper attribution of success, such as “referee really helped,” “winning is sheer luck,” this is not conducive to improving self-confidence and desire to work...