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Peer reviewedde Man, Anton; Ratti, Lucie LeMay – Social Behavior and Personality, 1989
Studied relationships among repression-sensitization and Levenson's three dimensions of perceived contingency (internal, powerful others, and chance) in college students (N=70). Found relationship between sensitization and belief in powerful others appeared to depend on the presence of a belief in chance control. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedde Man, Anton; Devisse, Thierry – Social Behavior and Personality, 1987
Investigated relationship among locus of control, mental ability, self-esteem, and alienation among 50 undergraduates. Results suggest that alienation is related to external locus of control and low self-esteem. No significant association was found for mental ability and alienation. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Alienation, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHaines, Phil; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1980
Examined whether a measure of self-reported, task-specific, efficacy expectations would correspond more with persistence or locus of control. Results indicated that beliefs in locus of control were strongly related to persistence and that efficacy expectations were not as significant. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHamid, P. Nicholas – Social Behavior and Personality, 1989
Examined social cognitive orientations of high and low self-monitoring college students (N=50) having either external or internal locus of control through analysis of social interaction patterns. Found low correlations between self-monitoring and locus of control; high self-monitors who were external maintained wide range of contacts whereas high…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedPandey, Janak; Bohra, Kayyum A. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1986
Examined the way male undergraduates (N=48) evaluated an ingratiating/non-ingratiating person, particularly when the evaluations were not the target of his compliments. Results revealed that the person's ingratiating versus non-ingratiating style significantly influenced subjects' attraction and evaluation toward him. The non-ingratiating person…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Cultural Traits, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedGroth-Marnat, Gary; Scumaker, Jack F. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Investigated relationship between locus of control and attitude to food intake in 101 female college students. Results indicated that locus of control was unable to predict attitudes toward eating and fear of becoming overweight. Thesis that locus of control would be related to attitude toward food intake was not supported. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, College Students, Eating Habits, Females
Peer reviewedBurczyk, Katherine; Standing, Lionel – Social Behavior and Personality, 1989
Investigated attitudes toward rape victims held by 144 undergraduates. Results showed that: (1) sympathy effect occurred for female victims, with both male and female raters; (2) masculine and undifferentiated raters showed sympathy effect whereas feminine and androgynous subjects did not; and (3) victims were attributed internal locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Locus of Control, Rape
