Abstract: This is a further research following Wang and Anderson(1990). 149 Chinese college students rated excuses under both failure and success situations, and assigned blames to self, another person, and"no one" under joint-responsible situations. Subjects also fulfilled the Revised Rotter's I-E Scale. Results indicated that externals had higher ex- cuse-tendencies than internals in both failure and success situations. Externals also assigned more blame to another person, but no differ- ences appeared on the blame assignment to self and "no one", when compared with internals. Results were discussed from the standpoint of research methodology and the psychodynamics of everyday life.

Key words: blame, excuse, locus of control, college student