The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between two scales (linear versus percentage) for assessing causal attribution. A questionnaire assessing attribution to the factors of ability, effort, difficulty of task, luck, and officiating was administered to 322 high school basketball players (average age = 17.2 yr.). There was high agreement; the correlations were .762 for task difficulty, .729 for officiating, .714 for effort, .696 for luck, and .688 for ability.
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