A total of 187 American and 90 Filipino college students were given Levenson's locus of control scales and the Thurstone's Gottschaldt hidden figures test. Consistent with past studies, no linear relationship between locus of control and field-independence was found. A similar curvilinear relationship was observed with both groups. (Author/SJL)

Examined locus of control scores and factor patterns, using Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children. Multidimensionality was supported by factor analyses of emotionally disturbed, delinquent, and elementary public school children. Differences in factor patterns raised questions about interpreting inventory scores as reflecting same…

Studied extent to which stereotypes of Mexican or Chicano students as fatalistic are supported by their locus of control scores. Data show Mexican university students are more internally oriented than students from other nations. Perceived locus of control indicative of fatalistic outlooks is lacking in data on these respondents. (Author/BEF)

Describes the use of reversal peer tutoring to change powerlessness, low academic achievement, and negative attitudes toward school and/or self among seventh and eighth grade students. (Author/DB)

In a study of parental models of optimal communication and parental-preferred strategy, it was indicated that mothers' preference for nondirective socratic communication in child management was related to internal locus of control in children. (CT)

Tested attribution are driven by control motivation and that attributional activity increases following an experience with lack of control. Subjects were given high, low, or no helplessness training and tested for motivational variations. (Author/SS)

Contrary to an earlier report, this study showed that life satisfaction of 56 institutionalized elderly women was associated with internality. Satisfaction was inversely related to their perception of institutional constraints, its most powerful determinant. (Author)

The Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was modified to a Likert-type scale and subjected to a principal components analysis and varimax rotation on a sample of subjects. Four factors were extracted which were then related to other personality measures on the same sample. (JKS)

Review of school-to-work transition theories indicated the following: (1) theories previously based on socialization and structuralism now include individual choice and subjectivity; (2) individualization and postmodernism are increasingly important; and (3) the interface between individual agency, choice, and subjectivity needs further…

Marital estrangement, positive feelings toward spouses, and locus of control among a national sample of 323 female counselors who were either married or formerly married to alcohol-abusing or to non-alcohol-abusing male partners were examined. Statistically significant differences between groups were found. (Contains 36 references.) (Author)

Assesses the effects of locus of control and television watching on eating disorder symptomatology in girls between the ages 10-17 years. Girls with an external locus of control had significantly greater eating disorder symptomatology. Girls who watched higher amounts of television and had an external locus of control had significantly greater…

The paper analyzes fear and hate as motivating forces in entrepreneurship. Fear can drive entrepreneurs, as they attempt to control their fear of poverty, loneliness, and being controlled by others. Hate, such as hatred of sloth and waste or hatred of being told something cannot be done, can also motivate entrepreneurs. (JDD)

Representatives of 86 local unions were surveyed regarding the level of union involvement in and control over programs in their workplaces. Results indicate that there is significant variation among local unions. (Author/JOW)

Uses the construct of generalized expectancies for locus of control as a model of the importance of broad theory and training in theory construction and evaluation in psychology. Discusses the characteristics that contribute to the construct's heuristic value and also discusses problems with the criteria for the publication of psychological…

Young children watched videotaped fairy tales that involved child or adult control over frightening events. Subsequently, they watched a videotape of a child having a medical exam. Children who had watched the child control fairy tales showed an enhancement, whereas children who had watched the adult control fairy tales showed a deficit, in…