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Anderson, Donna; Halberstadt, Jamin; Aitken, Robert – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Excessive entitlement--an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves--has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Morgan, Carole; And Others – Adolescence, 1995
Sexually active girls (n=64) at a clinic were surveyed. When those with a history of pregnancy were compared with never-pregnant girls, 2 significant differences were found: girls with pregnancy history had first intercourse at the mean age of 15 instead of 16, and scored higher on the "Powerful Other" Health Locus of Control subscale, a measure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Jankovic, Irwin N.; And Others – 1983
The view that humans fail to solve certain types of problems because they are helpless and passive originated from a series of studies with animals; subsequent research attempted to replicate the findings of the learned helplessness behavior with humans. In an attempt to replicate and extend the Hiroto and Seligman (1975) study of humans exposed…
Descriptors: College Students, Failure, Helplessness, Higher Education
Stockin, Bruce C. – 1984
Although psychologists have been investigating locus of control for more than two decades, few studies have examined how locus of control interacts with affective variables. To investigate the function of locus of control on arousal patterns and expressions of anger, 120 college students (60 internals, 60 externals, as measured by Rotter's (1966)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, College Students, Coping
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Feinberg, Richard A.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Two experiments investigated the relationship between the magnitude of motivation for control over the environment and tendency to derogate victims. Manipulated situational controllability and uncontrollability within a learned helplessness procedure and assessed derogation of a victimized stranger. Results indicated that motivation and need for…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, College Students, Expectation
Snodgrass, Sara E.; And Others – 1986
Past research has shown that the way one walks reflects one's personality traits and mood states. A study was conducted to examine whether the way one walks can reciprocally affect one's mood. The study tested the hypothesis that walking vigorously would cause a person to feel happier, and that a shuffling walk would cause a person to feel more…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education
Levey, Cathy A. – 1985
Based on a modification of Berglas and Jones' (1978) design, conditions of contingent and noncontingent success and failure were manipulated to determine when and why individuals choose to adopt self-handicapping strategies. Male undergraduates (N=76) were informed that they were participating in a study investigating the effects of music on…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
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Pekarik, Gene – Journal of American College Health, 1986
The author examined the theory of rational beliefs as a moderator between life events and illness using a sample of 283 college students. Results suggested that rationality functioned to prevent stress and illness when there were few stressors, but did not reduce the effect of high levels of life events. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: College Students, Emotional Response, Health, Higher Education
Banks, L. Morgan, III; Goggin, William C. – 1983
Both external locus of control (i.e., a generalized expectancy that reinforcement is controlled by luck or fate instead of oneself) and internal locus of attribution (i.e., beliefs that success or failure result from an individual's actions rather than external causes) have been related to depression. To examine the relationship of attributions…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Depression (Psychology)
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Hong, Barbara S. S.; Ivy, W. Fred; Gonzalez, Humberto R.; Ehrensberger, Wendy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
Students with disabilities are increasingly enrolled in postsecondary education, yet many of them are not prepared to cope with the rigor of higher education. Students who do not have the skills of self-empowerment often experience frustration and discouragement in the postsecondary setting, leading to their dropping out of school and eventually…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Higher Education, Disabilities, Self Advocacy
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Yarber, William L.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1981
A study was done to determine the impact of a death education course on the relationship between nursing students' death anxiety and locus of control. No significant changes occurred in death avoidance, death fear, death denial, and the reluctance to interact with the dying after the 15-week course. (JN)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Coping, Death
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Kachel, Douglas W. – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1979
This investigation suggests that the traditional sex label does not constitute the only conceptualization of the sex variable and that alternative definitions of this variable may be a prerequisite to a better understanding of the relationship between sex and the individual's perceived locus of control. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Females, Higher Education
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Grover, Paul L.; Smith, Douglas U. – Journal of Medical Education, 1981
Relationships among prior achievement, academic anxiety, locus of control, and performance in the first year of medical school were examined. Academic anxiety was found to be significantly related to first-year performance and when combined with a measure of prior achievement, resulted in a significant increase in prediction. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Higher Education, Locus of Control
MacMorran, Paula; And Others – 1982
The assumptions individuals make about their personal behaviors have received extensive attention, particularly the concepts of locus of control and self-efficacy. An additional concept, change orientation, refers to assumptions about how to change personal behavior. Approximately 180 subjects ranging from college freshmen to graduate students…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, College Students
Allen, Roger J. – 1980
This study evaluated the efficacy of the undergraduate service program "Controlling Stress & Tension" at the University of Maryland in terms of improving the health status of participants across biomedical stress reactivity and psychometric variables. Six hundred fifty-three participants were compared to 264 control subjects for pre-…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Biomedicine, College Students, Desensitization
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