The objectives of this paper were to analyze the causal attributions for school success and failure and the resilience of elementary school students, as well to examine relationships between these constructs in the sample. The sample consisted of 275 students from 5th to 9Th grades of both genders from a public school of a city in the countryside of the state of Minas Gerais. Data was collected using two likert type scales and analyzed according to the procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics procedures. Students attributed school achievement to internal and controllable causes for both success and failure situations, as well as reported the main characteristics of resilience. Positive and strong significant correlations were found between causal attribution and resilience. Results are discussed in terms of their educational implications.
Causal attributions; Resilience; Basic education
