Keyword: «attributions of success - failure»

In article the interrelation of educational motivation and the sociometric status of younger school students of 1 class is considered. The interrelation of criteria is considered on the example of pupils of 1 class. The review of psychological literature from a position of age psychology, creativity psychology is given. On selection of 30 first graders it is proved, the sociometric status of the first grader is connected with the level of school motivation and progress and attribution of success - failure. Reliability of results is proved by means of Mann-Whitney's U-criterion.