The currentfindings are not generalizable beyond the current convenience sample of Midwestern, primarily female Caucasian Pathophysiology nursing students. The findings should be confirmed on a
variety of samples. Further, the one time nature of this sample's
self-reported attributions does not fully explore the deep structural nature of casual attributions. Future research should employ interview techniques to delve deeper into students' attributional thinking.
Moreover, other research efforts should employ quantitative techniques in order to confirm the nature of Pathophysiology students'
causal attributions for academic outcomes, the impact of casual attributional thinking on academic outcomes, and the impact of attributional retraining on causal thinking.