Administered the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale to 50 medical students. Results showed the internally oriented group obtained a significantly lower score on the Death Anxiety Scale, suggesting that internally oriented students are better equipped to confront illness and death. (JAC)

Administered items from three locus of control (LOC) tests and the Beck Hopelessness Scale to 197 undergraduates. Factor analyses produced multiple factors for each LOC test; Beck proved to be unidimensional. Each LOC test contained salient dimension describing belief in luck, chance, or fate. Other common themes were internal control and…

Thirty-seven counselor education graduate students were asked to assign validity ratings to seven possible explanations of what determines behavior. The students assigned high validity ratings to an "interaction" explanation for behavior. Further, they attributed their own behavior to external causes and the behavior of others to internal causes.…

Investigated sex differences on the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale using factor analysis of student scores (N=194). Three factors emerged for females and five for males. Comparison with other studies shows item consistency on the first two factors which were the same for both sexes. (Author/JAC)

Assessed reliability and validity for an instrument designed to assess depressiform cognitions. The results suggest that the scale is promising, however, a strong sex effect was noted in some of the characteristics of attribution. Suggests the need to evaluate sexual-cultural differences in attributional processes associated with depression.…