Assessed the motivational effects of criterion-setting in self-reinforcement and compared the effects of external criteria with self-imposed criteria and self-presented rewards in undergraduates (N=180). Results indicated that criterion-setting and rewards are both important components of self-reinforcement procedures; and self-imposed criteria…

Assessed the orientation of 14 male professors toward immortality as a psychological motive. Results showed a generally low conscious concern with immortality issues; however, respondents who have accepted some sort of immortality show a more internal locus of control and better adjustment. (JAC)

Attempts to show how social learning theory provides a theoretical perspective for studying individual differences in information-seeking regarding preventive health care. (Author/RK)

This study assessed the attitudes of both males and females regarding their perceptions of themselves, spouse and locus of control, and the role that children may play in that assessment. To determine if men and women view themselves differently subsequent to having children, the Rosenberg self concept scale, the Ferguson Locus of Control scale,…

The authors, using a new instrument, attempted to reassess the relationship between psychopathology and interpersonal distance. Schizophrenics were more external than nonschizophrenics, who were more external than normals. Preferred distance from interpersonal stimuli as measured by the Comfortable Interpersonal Distance scale was greatest for…

College-age students were given a four-part questionnaire consisting of: (1) Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, (2) the Belief in Afterlife Scale-Form A, (3) Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, and (4) Lester's Fear of Death Scale. In general, the findings suggest that the relationship between death and afterlife beliefs is weak.…

This study examined the relationship between the internal-external control and text anxiety constructs, and academic achievement. The hypothesis that internals would be more successful academically than externals was not supported. (Author)

Several populations of both culturally deprived and culturally advantaged students were assessed on a standard measure of personality as well as several indices of personal aspirations. By measuring an individual difference variable in different social milieus, it was found that the variable made strikingly different predictions in different…

The critical challenge to be met in reviving the environment is selecting political strategies and economic trade-off formulae to implement a fundamental shift in society's value preferences. It requires a bold re-thinking about innovations in social custom, economic power, and political justice, needed to build a healthier, industrial order. (BL)

Hypothesis of this study was that parents who see their child's behavior problems as outside of parental control will have a more external'' orientation than those parents who see their child's behavior problems as a consequence of their own behavior toward the child. (Authors/CB)

An investigation of the causal attributions of success and failure performances on various levels of task difficulty by 36 learning disabled and 36 nondisabled adolescents revealed that Ss' perceptions of the task difficulty levels were significant determinants of the two groups' differing causal attributions. (Author/CL)

Evidence is presented which suggests that the Student Stress Inventory (Sixth Form Version) is a reliable instrument, and it exhibits significant concurrent validity with measures of anxiety and locus of control. (Author/GC)

Research relevant to the development of internal control of altruism is reviewed, and the need for integrating the various approaches to the study of altruism into one model is noted. (MP)