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Peer reviewedHyams, Nanci Barbara; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Investigated the relationship between locus of control and death anxiety in 99 college students. Results indicated a significant relationship between external locus of control and concern about death, and a specific differential patterning between locus of control and death anxiety. Sex differences existed on four locus of control dimensions. (WAS)
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Death, Higher Education
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
Peer reviewedRoback, Howard B.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Investigated gender differences among first-year medical students' attitudes toward discussion-oriented behavioral science course, performance on course essay, and locus of control. Found that female students generally evaluated course more favorably than did males, and scored more externally on locus of control measure. Found no sex differences…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Course Evaluation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
