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Peer reviewedCalhoun, Lawrence G.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Examines the relation of depression to locus of control and to the perceived causes of depression in a nonpsychiatric population. Findings suggest that adolescent females tend to hold themselves more responsible than males for unsatisfactory personal situations, and this extends to the attribution of causes for unhappy moods. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Individual Characteristics, Locus of Control
Bredemeier, B. J. – 1980
A typical assumption has been that women and men possess distinct power orientations: women have expressive characteristics, such as interdependence and cooperativeness, while men have instrumental characteristics, such as self reliance and competitiveness. An inventory assessing expressive and instrumental power orientations (PVO's) was developed…
Descriptors: Athletics, Attitude Measures, Individual Power, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedEntwisle, Doris R.; Greenberger, Ellen – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Major finding from this survey is that both anxiety and locus of control do not seem to bear consistent relationships to social class. (Authors)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 9, Intelligence Quotient, Locus of Control
Kreutzer, Jeffrey S.; And Others – 1980
For many years researchers have investigated the relationship between alcohol consumption and human aggression. A "policy-capturing" methodology was used to determine how judgments of responsibility for aggressive behavior are influenced by information about a person's alcohol consumption, sex, and degree of injury to a victim. Male subjects (N=8)…
Descriptors: Aggression, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Download full textJohnston, Dennis A.; Sherman, Martin F. – 1993
Numerous studies on death anxiety report conflicting findings. Concluding that a lack of specificity may explain the mixed results, this study sought to address the lack of focus and to extend and validate the results of an earlier study. A sample of 152 undergraduate students (111 female) from middle to upper-middle class participated. Subjects…
Descriptors: Accidents, Anxiety, Death, Higher Education
Greenspoon, Joel; Lamal, P. A. – 1979
Although research suggests that men and women are perceived as differing significantly on a number of traits or characteristics, little research relates these traits to observable behaviors. The trait-characteristic issue, when carried over to employment, serves to justify discrimination against women. Research on attribution theory also supports…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior, Correlation, Employment
Roffe, Michael; Fraser, Kathleen – 1978
An empirical test of a contemporary model of psychosocial stress was conducted to evaluate expected differences in cognitive and affective functioning for males and females in a professional career sample. Perceived powerlessness and affective hostility were viewed as constituting a cluster of adaptive responses to personal/social conditions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Alienation, Coping, Fear of Success
