The purposes of this research are, first, to examine the relationship between elementary students’
interpersonal disposition and their school adjustment and, second, to investigate the mediating effect of
attribution style on the relationship. For this research, 6th graders from three elementary schools in ‘S’city,
‘O’city, and ‘H’city of Gyeonggi-do took a survey. The following is the result of analyzing the total of
603 surveys. First, the elementary students’ role, social skill, and expressive disposition - the subareas of
interpersonal disposition - showed positive correlations with the internal attribution and the school
adjustment; the external attribution showed a positive correlation with only one of the three subareas,
emotional expressiveness, while it showed a negative correlation with the school adjustment. Second, the
internal attribution partially mediated interpersonal role disposition and school adjustment as well as
interpersonal sociometric disposition; the internal attribution completely mediated expressive disposition.
External attribution did not mediate the role disposition, sociometric disposition, and school adjustment
and showed a negative correlation with interpersonal expressive disposition. Based on the result, it can be
concluded that the interpersonal disposition and the attribution style can influence the school adjustment.
Thus, in order for the students to have a well-rounded school adjustment, their teachers should seek a
solution for the students to muster their internal attribution propensity and to have positive interpersonal
disposition.