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Barnet, Helen Smith – 1987
This study depicts the divorce process over three time periods: predivorce decision phase, divorce proper, and postdivorce. Research has suggested that persons with a more internal locus of control experience less intense and shorter intervals of stress during the divorce proper and better postdivorce adjustment than do persons with a more…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Divorce, Locus of Control, Models
Cohn, Richard M. – Social Psychology, 1978
Differences in self-satisfaction between the employed and the newly unemployed vary according to: (1) amount of concomitant change in social, family, and economic role; (2) relative importance of the status change among subgroups (male vs. female, white collar vs. blue collar); and (3) individual's attribution of cause for the status change (own…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Family Role, Locus of Control, Models
Peer reviewedAdams, Gerald R.; Jones, Randy M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
A family relations model for the study of adolescent egocentrism was tested in an exploratory study of the relationship between parental socialization styles and adolescents' imaginary audience behavior. Rejection-control was associated with increased imaginary audience behavior, while physical affect was negatively related to self-consciousness.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Egocentrism, Family Relationship
Peer reviewedPiers, Ellen V. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Relationships between children's self esteem, certainty of self esteem appraisal, and intellectual achievement responsibility were examined in boys and girls at the sixth grade and tenth grade levels with use of the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale and the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. (MS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBowker, Anne; Bukowski, William M.; Hymel, Shelley; Sippola, Lorrie K. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2000
Examined impact of peer experience on seventh graders' strategies for coping with peer hassles. Found that more aggressive adolescents perceived more control over hassles. More aggressive, unpopular adolescents used more negative strategies; more popular aggressive females used more problem-focused strategies. Withdrawn adolescents perceived less…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Aggression, Comparative Analysis
McIntire, Walter G.; And Others – Career Education Quarterly, 1978
The extent to which locus of control as a general expectancy model relates to career maturity was measured by the Career Maturity Inventory (Crites) and the Career Development Inventory (Super and Forrest). The most striking finding was the career maturity advantage of the internally oriented student. (MF)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Decision Making Skills, Educational Research
Peer reviewedWoodrow, Janice E. J. – Computers and Education, 1991
Describes a study of student teachers that examined determinants of achievement in a computer literacy course. Correlations with measures of computer attitudes, perceived locus of control, gender, age, and prior word processing and computer experience are discussed, and the computer literacy model on which the analysis of data was based is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation
