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Peer reviewedEhrlich, Amy B.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1977
This study uses the concept of congruence-incongruence as a predictor of interpersonal distance for each of four different social stimuli: (1) a same-sex friend, (2) a girl that they wanted to meet, (3) an ex-mental patient and (4) a professor whose course they had failed. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Distance, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textKocher, A. Thel – 1977
The purpose of this study is to determine whether locus of control scores for students in "open" programs changed significantly over a one-year period and whether there was any change different from change experienced by students in a "traditional" program. The lack of significant group main effects indicated that students in the open programs did…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Humanistic Education
Peer reviewedGilbert, Lucia A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
A model of psychological treatment increasing internality and regaining control over stressful environments was tested among college students. The two experiments assessed: (1) the locus of control regarding recent events and individual characteristics; and (2) the locus of control and manifest anxiety at pretreatment and posttreatment. Results…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, College Students, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedDishman, Rod K.; Steinhardt, Mary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1990
Discusses a study that compared internal health locus of control (IHLOC) with internal exercise locus of control for predicting college students' activity. Results indicate an independent influence of IHLOC on free-living physical activity and suggest that testing adjust for fitness, barriers to physical activity, and outcome-expectancy values.…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Health Promotion, Individual Power
Rebecca, Meda; And Others – 1974
The relation between field independence-dependence and creativity was investigated in 40 fourth graders equally divided by sex. The measures used were the Children's Embedded Figures Test, several verbal and figural subtests from the Torrance Tests of Creativity, and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. No significant Pearson correlations were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Pithers, Bob – 2000
A study used the standardized Group Embedded Figures Test to assess field dependence-field independence among groups of vocational education teachers of varied ages and teaching backgrounds. The sample consisted of 170 volunteers who were vocational education teachers and trainers in the process of completing the requirements for either a diploma…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
