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Peer reviewedBoor, Myron – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
Investigates the relationship between the annual variations in United States suicide rates during the years 1966 to 1973 and the concomitant annual variations in the I-E scores obtained by United States college students. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Cultural Influences, Hypothesis Testing
Peer reviewedSimon, J. G.; Feather, N. T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Male and female undergraduates rated their ability, amount of preparation, task difficulty, and their initial confidence (expectation) before they began an important examination. Subsequently they attributed causality for the examination outcome by rating the importance of factors involving ability, preparation, task difficulty, and luck as…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Expectation, Failure
Peer reviewedKleiber, D.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1973
The purposes of this study were to test the validity of the item-pair dipolarity assumption, to change the format to avoid bipolar item pairing should the assumption prove untenable, establish a more definitive factor structure and explore its validity by relating it to other personality variables. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
