Abstract

This study is to see if the personal disposition - personality traits, religious experience and degree of achievement - has any interactional relation or covariance to negative results of the social phenomena, achievement, and unexpected events in the three aspects of attributional process. The focus of this study is to investigate the relation between personal traits and attribution, the interaction between attribution according to personality and academic achievements, and the interaction between personality according to religious experience and religious orientation and academic achievements. The subjects of this study consist of 342 university students. The tools for the personality diagnostic testing is of the inventory type, the questionaire is made of three scales for attribution and the scale for the religious orientation (intrinsic and extrinsic) comprises 20 items. The results of this study is as follows. In the attribution of the social phenomena of the whole subjects, the personality traits of the social disposition - dominance, sociability, and responsibility - have significant reciprocal effects, but among Christians, such personality traits as emotional stability and superiority, appeared as having strong reciprocal effects. Further, though significant attributional differences according to the religious orientations was not found, yet the covariance of emotional stability, responsibility and conformity was found to have significant differences.