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Gender, College Major Selections, Classifications within Majors, and Its Relationship with Locus of Control: An Empirical Evidence for Counseling Educators
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Jemi-Alade, Tunji – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
To help counselors develop strategies to enhance students' social, personal, and psychological well-being, this research provides an understanding of how students perceive their environment. Specifically examining graduate and undergraduate students, the researcher was concerned with ascertaining the effect of the college-major variable (Business…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Majors (Students), Business Administration Education
Relationship of Locus of Control Inventory for Three Achievement Domains (LOCITAD) to Two Other Locus of Control Measures: A Construct Validity Study.
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Omizo, Michael M.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
The relationship was examined between six scales of the Locus of Control for Three Achievement Domains (LOCITAD), the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale, and the Rotter Internal-External Scale. Subjects were 140 adolescent boys and girls. Significant correlations provided some support for LOCITAD's validity. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity, Correlation
The Multidimensionality of the Rotter I-E Scale and Its Higher-Order Structure: An Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Richards, Gary E. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1987
The factorial structure of the Rotter Internal-External (IE) scale was examined. While there was strong evidence against the unidimensionality of the Rotter scale, the findings suggested that the first-order factors do define a single higher-order construct that may represent the generalized IE construct. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Goodness of Fit