Although some earlier studies found mixed results, the majority of these stories found significant gender differences in self-attribution of success and/or failure in others.In general, it was found that men are more likely to (a) attribute failure,poor performance, and negative outcomes to external factors or events and (b) attribute their success to their own abilities (or lack thereof) and (b) attribute their success to external factors or events.In a longitudinal study of engineering students with a sample of 86 men and 34 women by Felder, Felder,Mauney, Hamrin, and Dietz(1995),it was found that: