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Health-Related Information Seeking as a Function of Health-Related Locus of Control and Health Value
Peer reviewedWallston, Kenneth A.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Attempts to show how social learning theory provides a theoretical perspective for studying individual differences in information-seeking regarding preventive health care. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Health, Hypothesis Testing, Information Seeking, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedNowicki, Stephen, Jr. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1982
Tested the hypothesis that internals will achieve more than externals in situations where competition is preeminent but not where cooperation is requried. Children (N=300) were divided into internals and externals, placed in situations varying in competition and cooperation, and readministered digit-symbol task. The general hypothesis was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Children, Competition
Peer reviewedRaine, 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
