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Does Treatment Work with Internet Sex Offenders? Emerging Findings from the Internet Sex Offender Treatment Programme (i-SOTP)
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Middleton, David; Mandeville-Norden, Rebecca; Hayes, Elizabeth – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2009
The increase in convictions for internet-related sexual offending has led to new challenges for treatment providers. By 2005 nearly one-third of all sexual convictions in England and Wales were for internet-related sexual offending. In late 2006 a treatment programme for internet-related sexual offending (the i-SOTP) was given accreditation for…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Internet
Internal-External Control and Weight Loss in the Obese: Predictive and Discriminant Validity and Some Possible Clinical Implications.
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Kincey, John – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
Among obese females following a behavioral weight loss program, a measure of perceived personal control significantly predicted outcome. Internals achieved greater mean weight loss. The internal control orientation was associated with higher extraversion and self-acceptance, but neither of these other variables correlated with weight loss. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Dietetics, Females, Followup Studies
Locus of Control and Socialization.
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Raine, Adrian; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Predicted that an external locus of control would characterize undersocialization. Tested this hypothesis on a random sample of secondary school children (N=97). Scores from the Child Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale were found to predict undersocialization in the expected direction. Suggested several possible interpretations of this…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control