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Thurman, Pamela Jumper; And Others – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1990
Among 120 Cherokees and Cheyennes tested with Levenson's multidimensional locus of control scale, Cheyenne male alcoholics scored significantly lower on the internal scale than Cheyenne male nonalcoholics, and Cherokee female alcoholics scored significantly higher on the external scale than Cherokee female nonalcoholics. Contains 16 references.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Analysis of Variance, Females
Immerman, Michael – 1983
An investigation of the relationship between the locus of control construct and the tribe, sex, and first language of two groups of southwestern American Indian adults (85 Navajo and 50 Pueblo subjects), as measured by the Rotter Internal-External Control Scale, confirmed the prediction that the groups would exhibit similar characteristics for the…
Descriptors: Adults, American Indians, Analysis of Variance, Females
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Briere, Nathalie M.; Vallerand, Robert J. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Sixty-two French-Canadian women undergraduates participated in a study analyzing the effects of private self-consciousness on attribution. Shows women with high private self-consciousness, when told they performed well, attributed success to more internal, stable, and controllable factors than other subjects. In no-outcome conditions, no…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory, Causal Models, College Students