Jonathan Greco School Probation Officer - 931 Words

Signature Assignment Questions Jonathan Greco: School Probation Officer 1. For the most part, Jonathan believes that his perceived lack of success was due to a number of factors such as an extremely high case load, lack of adequate training, and the large number of parents who do not seem interested enough in their children, and who did not trust him. He felt there were limits to what he could do to help his clients because he could not affect the reasons for his limited success, and the factors in his non-success never seemed to change. Answer the following questions about Jonathan’s attributions for his non-success. a. Is Jonathan making an internal or external attribution for his non-success? Explain your answer. Jonathan was making†¦show more content†¦b. Is Jonathan making a controllable or uncontrollable attribution for his non-success? Explain your answer. Jonathan was making an uncontrollable attribution for his non-success. He did not feel he could influence the factors he felt attributed to his limited success and didn’t believe there was a contingency he could help his clients. Jonathan also lacked a sense of competence (or self-efficacy) in his ability to support his clients. If Jonathan was making a controlled attribution, he would have felt he could have an impact on the factors that he felt contributed to his non-success. He would have been more motivated to seek out solutions to the barriers to helping his clients and would have believed those barriers could change and improve. c. Is Jonathan’s making a stable or unstable attribution for his non-success? Explain your answer. Jonathan is making a stable attribution for his non-success. He believes that the factors causing him to be unsuccessful are not changing and expects that the future will lead to the same results. As a result of this belief, Jonathan is less motivated to ask for help and seek out other alternatives to help his clients. If Jonathan were making unstable attributions for his non-success, he would have believed his short-comings and the uncontrollable factors were temporary and would eventually improve. 2. Jonathan’s boss believes that