Attitudes toward success and failure and their relationship with action-state orientations
Year: 2025
Type: study-registration
Abstract: This study examines the relationship between individuals’ attitudes toward success and failure and their subsequent action orientations. We posit that more positive attitudes toward failure will predict greater action orientation following failures (H1), while positive attitudes toward success will predict greater action orientation during ongoing performance (H2). We will recruit 400 U.S. adults through Prolific who will complete measures of their attitudes toward success and failure (Success Attitude Scale and Failure Attitude Scale) and their action orientation tendencies across different situations (Action Control Scale, ACS-90; Kuhl, 1994). Our analysis plan includes confirmatory factor analysis to validate the structure of the attitude scales, followed by multiple regression analyses testing whether attitudes toward both success and failure predict action orientation after failure and during performance. We expect to find that failure attitudes uniquely predict post-failure action orientation, while success attitudes uniquely predict action orientation during performance, supporting a domain-specific relationship between attitudes and behavioral patterns.
Source: Open Science Framework
Institution: Duke University
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7116673432