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Peer reviewedMorris, Susan; Messer, Stanley B. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1978
Examines the differential effectiveness of using external reinforcement versus self reinforcement to increase the task persistence of children characterized by internal or external locus of control. Subjects were 153 fourth and fifth grade boys. (BD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contingency Management, Elementary School Students, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedKrampen, Guenter – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Alcoholics were more external in powerful others control orientations, more external in chance control orientations, more hopeless, and more Machiavellianistic than the nonalcoholics. Results support the findings of alcoholics' relative externality in locus of control reinforcement. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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
Download full textKeller, John M.; Pugh, Richard C. – 1974
Sex differences in the correlations between Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) Control of Reinforcement Scale and the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) are predicted, based on a theoretical expectation of a relationship between I-E and adjustment, and previous research. Both tests were administered to 140 male and 130 female college freshmen.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedLeung, Paul – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
A training procedure that appears to facilitate both empathic understanding and selective response to client statements is one built around the training of Zen Buddhist monks. Subjects trained in Zen techniques of external and internal concentration were found to increase their ability in these two counseling behaviors. (Author/LA)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Modification, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedFielding, Michael F.; Pappas, James P. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
This is an investigation of a college freshman sample of the relationship between the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, Form T399, and the Rotter Internal-External Control of Reinforcement Scale (I-E scale) which measures locus of control of reinforcement. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCostello, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Examined the relationship among depression, locus of control of reinforcement, and age in psychiatric outpatients and students. Found depression and locus of control highly correlated; age negatively correlated with locus of control and positively with depression. Discusses the possible causal relationship between external locus of control and…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cohort Analysis, College Students
Stephens, Mark W. – 1972
A study was conducted to: (1) assess the equivalence of the Nowicki Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children, the Stephens-Delys Reinforcement Contingency Interview, and the Gruen-Korte-Stephens test and the construct validity of each; and (2) investigate the impact on IE of the open classroom Follow Through program sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
