آدرس مقاله:
Bakhshi Jahromi, A. and Zamani. Gh. H. (2008). "Attributions for farm performance amongst farmers in Iran". World Applied Sciences Journal (WASJ), 3(3):405-412. ( ISI )
Abstract
In attribution theory, individual’s explanations and excuses about success and failure are discussed. People want to ascribe the cause of their successes and failures to something or someone. Attribution theory explains that, individuals attribute the results of action, generally to four main causes: ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck. These causes can be grouped into three main dimensions: internality (or externality), stability, and controllability.
This research, has aimed to examine and study the attribution theory for wheat grower's and to specify that to what they attribute their successes or failures. Survey research methodology was used in this study. The population included irrigated wheat growers in Shiraz County, Iran. With using two stage stratified random sampling method, 217 farmers (wheat growers) were sampled and interviewed.
The findings show that wheat yield performance has a positive significant relationship with attribution to effort and to ability. But it has a negative significant correlation with attribution to task difficulty and to luck. Also according to the findings, attribution to internal factors and attribution to controllable factors have strong and significant relationship with wheat yield performance of farmers.
Paying more attention to developing motivational and psychological attitude of farmers, and increasing their technical information are some suggestions of the study.
It should be considered that no research was found about farmer’s attributional style in the review of literature.
Key Words: Farmer, Behaviour, Attribution Theory, Wheat Growers, Iran
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