Although she is intelligent and a good athlete, Abigail believes that her low grades in school and losing the quarter-mile racin

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Although she is intelligent and a good athlete, Abigail believes that her low grades in school and losing the quarter-mile racin

g record are reflections of her own intellectual and athletic incompetence. Her conclusions best illustrate a pessimistic:

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Mazyrski [523] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-03T07:07:05+03:00

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Attributional style

Explanation:

Your attributional style is the way you explain a negative event to yourself, it includes the conclusions you draw from a negative event and the meaning you give to it.

Abigail was intelligent and a good athlete, but she believes that her low grades in school and losing the quarter-mile racing record are reflections of her own intellectual and athletic incompetence, this illustrate her ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE.

Abigail attributed her failure to her incompetence.

A pessimistic attributional style assumes that others or the self are to blame for bad things as opposed to let's say circumstances.