CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS, ASPIRATIONS, SUCCESS, AND PERSISTENCE An Attributional Model

The study of attributions and personality are two of the most well-developed areas in all of psychology, but there are only limited efforts to integrate these areas due to the division between experimental and correlational psychology. The literature on attributions has also been divided into affective and cognitive camps. To achieve rapprochement between these areas, a model is developed that proposes that attributions are affected by stable core selfevaluations, and that these attributions, in turn, affect more proximal selfevaluations. The resultant model provides an opportunity to restore the concept of process to a central role in personality research and understand how stable individual differences might affect attributions for specific events. Understanding causal relationships is fundamental to the way that human beings make sense of and attempt to adapt to their worlds, even though for