The effect of an attribution retraining program intended to teach 35 learning disabled (LD) junior high school students to attribute achievement outcomes to the internal factor of effort was examined in the study. The research was concerned with LD adolescents' perceptions of personal (internal) and environmental (external) causality as…

Although predictive accuracy (cognitive empathy) and emotional empathy may be aspects of the same general ability, few empirical studies have examined the relationships between these dimensions. The relationship between cognitive empathy and emotional empathy was investigated by correlating the Mehrabian and Epstein Emotional Empathy Scale and its…

Prior research has indicated that a person attempts to conform to standards of correctness when objectively self-aware (OSA), suggesting than an OSA person will feel less control than a subjectively self-aware (SSA) person because the standards of correctness restrict the number of preferred outcomes that the causal agent self can produce. The…

A high school population (N = 541) was administered the Rotter Locus of Control in April and again the following November. At the second testing the MacDonald-Tseng and Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scales were given to examine their concurrent validity. The AIM-ETS Survey and a demographic survey were also administered. Test-retest…

This study investigates the underlying constructs of two instruments which purport to measure the locus of control of reinforcement variable. Instruments used were the IAR and the Career Development Responsibility Scale (CDR). Principal components analyses were computed separately for each instrument from the intercorrelation matrix of the items…

This document contains a literature review and a discussion of issues concerned with the locus of control dimension in psychological experimentation over the past 15 years. Locus of control research is traced from the early laboratory experiments which demonstrated that instructions and perceptions about skill and chance could dramatically affect…

Academic achievement in males is quite consistently predictable from locus of control scores, although this is not true for females. Reasons suggested for this apparent inconsistency include the use of externality as a shield against failure, the instruments used and a "fear of success" in women. Several studies with college and elementary school…

A general framework for viewing the relationship between attribution processes and perceived source credibility is proposed. Based upon this framework, an experimental study was conducted examining perceived source credibility as a function of causal attributions in messages. Three independent variables were incorporated into a 2x2x2 factorial…

The present study was prompted by the ambiguity and equivocal nature of research results with respect to the control orientation within an alcoholic population. The purpose of the investigation was to examine the amount of control both perceived and experienced by alcoholics and nonalcoholics. (Author/RK)

The tendency to inspect visual material (slides) rather than to move on to the next slide was compared among introverts and extroverts. Results show: 1) extroverts inspected stimuli for a shorter time; 2) extroverts made more and faster reponses; 3) extroverts produced significantly higher proportion of runs of accelerating responses. (Editor/RK)

Achievement gain was significantly greater under learner control than under program control. (Author)

In order to test Erikson's statements regarding ego integrity vs. despair, 20 men and 20 women from each of three residential settings (general community, public housing and nursing homes) were given life satisfaction, locus of control and death anxiety scales. Erikson's hypothesis was supported only by the public housing data. (Author)

Health education, in the sense of primary prevention, should direct itself to eliminating enslaving factors (such as feelings of inferiority, hostility, alienation; socioeconomic status, emotional distress, etc.) so that the client may freely choose health-related behaviors consistent with personal needs. (MJB)