Saving the world with Psychology Part I

Hi Steemians!

One of my ideas is to present psychological theories and to explain these in easy terms. Also i would like to establish a connection to reality by offering practical scenarios of how to use this knowledge.

I would like to start with a popular theory which is highly relevant for the current global problems we face as society - the attribution theory from Weiner. He describes different expectations and attribution processes, which directly contribute to self-confidence in one's own abilities. He designed a three-stage classification model:

1. Location (internal vs. external causes)
2. Stability (stable vs. variable causes)
3. Controllability (controllable vs. uncontrollable causes)

The level of the location describes the origin of an event. An event can have either internal or external causes. If, for example, the first Steem story has been successfully published and is rewarded by other Steemians, this can either be due to one's own abilities ("I wrote an interesting Steem story because of my good skills in writing") or to external factors such as the difficulty of a task or social support ("The topic of the story was too complex" "Others had more support from followers and got upvoted"). Stability describes the contingency of the causes in relation to the temporal perspective. It can change any time ("Next time i will be more lucky") or it is perceived as stable condition ("It will always be this way"). The controllability over the action or the result depends either on controllable ("I put a lot of effort in this story") or is linked to uncontrollable factors ("I could not concentrate on the story").

So if you face hard times in your local environment or try to find solutions to small and big problems try to think of this model and try to reshift your personal as well as the attribution processes of others. Try to think of your own abilities if you did well, try to attribute failures to external causes. Try to see positive influences as stable, get support from your
friends or followers and try to control the outcome of your actions. If you follow this advice you will have fewer difficulties in tackling everyday life and maybe you will even start to try to make things better for all of us by starting your own small or big initiatives :). Even complex problems such as climate change can be solved if we work together as human kind!