Noun Interpretation in Haider's Attribution Theory

Hyde's attribution theory was first put forward by F. Hyde (1958) in Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. Therefore, Hyde is the founder of attribution theory. He pointed out that the causes of human behavior can be divided into internal reasons and external reasons. Internal factors refer to the actors' own factors, such as needs, emotions, interests, attitudes, beliefs, efforts, etc. External factors refer to the factors in the actor's surrounding environment, such as others' expectations, rewards, punishments, instructions and orders, weather, the difficulty of work and so on.

Attribution theory holds that people's past success or failure is mainly attributed to four factors: effort, ability, task difficulty and opportunity. These four factors can be further classified according to internal and external factors, stability and controllability: from the internal and external factors, effort and ability belong to internal factors, and task difficulty and opportunity belong to external factors; From the perspective of stability, ability and task difficulty belong to stable factors, while efforts and opportunities belong to unstable factors; From the perspective of controllability, effort is a controllable factor, while the difficulty and opportunity of the task are beyond personal control.