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Samaroo, Julia; Dahya, Negin; Alidina, Shahnaaz – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
This paper discusses the significance of conducting respectful research within urban schools, using the example of one large-scale university-school board partnership in northwestern Toronto. The authors, three research assistants on the project, use their experiences within three of the participating schools to interrogate the research approach…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Research, Barriers, Research Problems

Allie, Stephen M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
A group of 135 children with adjustment problems, referred to a semiresidential educational setting, were evaluated using the Children's Nowicki-Strickland Scale of Internal-External Control. Pretest scores were factor-analyzed, revealing two correlated factors: general feelings of helplessness in interpersonal relationships, and general feelings…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Interpersonal Relationship, Locus of Control, Problem Children

Bolen, Larry M.; Torrance, E. Paul – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1978
Junior college students were randomly assigned to dyadic or individual test conditions and scored on the Unusual Uses Activity of the TTCT. Analyses showed dyads more flexible and original than individuals; no significant differences due to locus of control; and males more flexible in creative functioning. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Creative Thinking, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests

Szura, John Paul; Vermillion, Mary E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
Two hundred workers were tested for self-actualization, internal vs external locus-of-control, repression vs sensitization, need for approval, and the tendency to attribute job satisfaction and dissatisfaction to motivators and hygienes. Results indicate that self-actualization is related to the attribution of satisfaction to both motivators and…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Locus of Control, Males

Gable, Robert K.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
This study examined differences in vocational maturity of women across different levels of internal-external control and typical versus atypical vocational choice. Results indicated that internally controlled women had significantly higher vocational maturity than externally controlled women; no differences were found in vocational maturity…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
Bartsch, Karl; Hackett, Gail – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1979
Assessed the effectiveness of an established two-credit course in personal-career decision making. Results indicate that experimental participants altered their locus of control toward internality; that they were considerably more articulate than controls in describing career concepts; and that they had taken more action toward resolving their…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Students, Counseling Effectiveness

Kachel, Douglas W. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1979
This investigation suggests that the traditional sex label does not constitute the only conceptualization of the sex variable and that alternative definitions of this variable may be a prerequisite to a better understanding of the relationship between sex and the individual's perceived locus of control. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Females, Higher Education