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Chao, Yu-Long – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Using different measures of self-reported and other-reported environmental behaviour (EB), two important theoretical models explaining EB--Hines, Hungerford and Tomera's model of responsible environmental behaviour (REB) and Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour (TPB)--were compared regarding the fit between model and data, predictive ability,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Models, Citizenship Responsibility, Conservation (Environment)
Wu, Su Chen; Elliott, Robert T. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2008
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether gifted and nongifted students' preferences for different types of reward were affected by differential locus of control. In total, 181 gifted and 107 nongifted junior high school students in Taiwan participated. The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale was used as a measure of locus of…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academically Gifted, Competition, Foreign Countries
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Lao, Rosina C. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1978
The results of this study, taken together and compared with data from previous studies, suggest that the locus of control variable may be tapping some basic psychological dimension common to both Chinese and American cultures. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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Chiu, Chou-Kang; Lin, Chieh-Peng; Tsai, Yuan Hui; Hsiao, Ching-Yun – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005
The psychological model of organizational commitment (OC) has been extensively investigated in U.S. workers (Near, 1989), but less frequently applied in cross-personality studies. The investigation proposes a model of turnover intentions (TI) that uses locus of control (LOC) as a moderator. A causal model and a firm-specific sample were used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Culture, Locus of Control, Causal Models