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Peer reviewedRapp, Charles A.; And Others – Social Work, 1993
Provides set of research strategies that would help bridge gap between research concerning care and treatment of people with severe mental illness and consumer empowerment. Argues that research should attend to context of research, vantage point, process of formulating research questions, selection of interventions tested, selection of outcomes…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Individual Power, Intervention, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedWalden, Tedrea A.; Ramey, Craig T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Academically high-risk children who had participated in an efficacy-oriented intervention program were compared to a group of high-risk nonintervention children and a low-risk comparison group. The high-risk intervention and low-risk children had stronger beliefs in personal control over academic success; these beliefs were good predictors of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Failure, Individual Power
Peer reviewedCain, Rudolph A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1994
This exploratory, cross-sectional study examined the impact of independent variables on the adult development cycle of 33 African-American professionals. Shifts in locus of control and life themes and the impact of racism on locus of control were focuses of the inquiry. Implications for diagnosis and intervention are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Attitudes, Blacks, Identification
Banziger, George; Roush, Sharon – 1982
Many gerontologists have noted the tendency of nursing homes to nurture dependency and learned helplessness in residents. To test the effectiveness of a control-relevant intervention strategy, nursing home residents (N=40) were given the opportunity to care for wild birds by tending individually placed bird feeders. Residents were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Helplessness, Individual Power, Intervention
Willings, David; Greenwood, Bill – Gifted Education International, 1990
A program of intervention called therapeutic tutoring to help underachievers is described. Intervention centers around students' loci of control, through a process of identifying areas in which students feel empowered and relating academic experiences to these areas. Academic exercises based on Monopoly, cricket, rugby, soap operas, field hockey,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Games, Individual Power
Download full textFine, Michelle – 1981
Child care workers may derogate youth in order to restore their own sense of justice and may do so only when they feel organizationally and personally unable to help the youth. The relationship between child care workers' sense of power (both in their agencies and to help youth) and their perceptions of the youth was examined for a sample of 171…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Child Caregivers, Competence
Schiamberg, Lawrence B.; And Others – 1985
A review of research literature pertaining to locus of control in older adults and its application to social and educational settings indicates that reliable generalizations about the self-concept of older adults require a careful consideration of both personal and situational variables. Four separate processes are useful in understanding the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Gerontology
