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Peer reviewedStrahan, Robert; Huth, Helga – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1975
Relations between an embedded figures measure of field independence and various dimensions of Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale were investigated. The general absence of significant correlations suggests that these variables are essentially unrelated. (Author)
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Locus of Control, Personality Measures, Personality Studies
Peer reviewedCrandall, Virginia C.; Lacey, Beth W. – Child Development, 1972
Study designed to reveal some of the intermediate skills which might account for the superior academic performance of children who perceive their reinforcements in those situations as caused by their own behavior (internal control). (Authors)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Locus of Control, Measurement Instruments, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedThompson, Gordon; Knox, Alan B. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1987
Students who registered for correspondence study were studied in relation to the cognitive style of field-independence. Although results showed participation in correspondence study to be associated with the cognitive style of field-independence, no significant differences were found in persistence behavior or in student evaluations of…
Descriptors: College Students, Correspondence Study, Course Evaluation, Field Dependence Independence
