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Peer reviewedStewart, Ross M.; Jessell, John C. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1986
Investigated the comparative effects of two types of precounseling training (written, videotaped) in facilitating client counselor relationships and client self-exploration of internally and externally oriented clients. Results indicated both internally and externally oriented clients who experienced videotaped precounseling training reported a…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Training, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedRucker, M. H.; King, D. C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1985
Investigated effects of ascendancy and perceived locus of control on reactions to participative and manipulative leadership among college males, using Guilford-Zimmerman ascendancy scores and Rotter Internal-External scale scores. Results indicated that the two personality measures were associated with different reactions to the two styles of…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles
Richardson, Glenn E.; Wylie, Wayne E. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1984
The results of a study on college students indicate that creativity levels are positively affected by educational imagery. Educational imagery can be used in the health curriculum as a method for problem solving and developing self-control. Data and conclusions from this study are explained. (DF)
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Development, Creativity Tests, Decision Making Skills
Peer reviewedDielman, Ted E.; And Others – Adolescence, 1984
Administered a health behavior and attitudes questionnaire to 511 fifth- and sixth-grade students. Questions included locus of control and self-esteem items and questions concerning smoking, drinking, and marijuana use. Results indicated that the relationships between health locus of control and self-esteem and their behaviors and intentions is…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Drinking, Drug Use, Health
Ewing, Raymond P. – World Future Society Bulletin, 1984
Awakening in young people a sense that the future can be shaped is one of the most constructive contributions any practicing futurist can make. Discussed in this speech, delivered to high school seniors, are future studies issues of importance to students, e.g., how technology will affect people, tomorrow's jobs. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Futures (of Society), High Schools, Individual Power
Peer reviewedNerviano, Vincent J.; Gross, William F. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1976
Attempts a revision and/or regrouping of Bradley's 38 loneliness items into one or more relatively homogeneous subscales for a population of chronic alcoholics. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitude Measures, Emotional Problems, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedKivett, Vira R.; And Others – Journal of Gerontology, 1977
This study determined relative importance of physical, psychological, and social variables to type of control that middle-aged adults (N=337) perceive over their environment. Factors reflective of the process of acculturation such as self-concept, religious motivation, and occupation maintained the strongest relationship to perceived control.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences, Gerontology, Locus of Control
Domain Specific Aspects of Locus of Control: Implications for Modifying Locus of Control Orientation
Peer reviewedBradley, Robert H.; Gaa, John P. – Journal of School Psychology, 1977
Goal-setting conferences were employed to improve LOC orientation for academic achievement situations among junior high school students (N=36). Results were interpreted as supporting domain-specific aspects of LOC. Results implied that educators can design programs to modify LOC orientation. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Environmental Influences, Goal Orientation
Download full textJack, Brady M.; Liu, Chia-Ju; Chiu, Hoan-Lin – Online Submission, 2005
This paper presents the results of a case study involving Taiwanese elementary teachers who teach science at the elementary grade school level. It advocates the position that a teacher's personal science efficacy belief influences his or her science teaching outcome expectations. It also points to an important metamorphosis that is taking place…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science
Talbott, Anne Marie; Heritage, Jeannette – 1991
Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale has been the focus of much research since its introduction in 1966. To further that research, the relationships among locus of control, level of religious belief, attitudes toward women, attitudes toward feminism, attitudes toward homosexuality, gender, and traditional versus nontraditional…
Descriptors: College Students, Feminism, Higher Education, Homosexuality
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth – 1998
A study used three Newbery books--"The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle (Lofting, 1922), "Charlotte's Web" (White, 1952), and "Maniac Magee" (Spinelli, 1990)--to examine three female characters identified in these books in the role of rescuer, accentuating their commonalities and differences within Jungian and feminist theory in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis
Abu-Hilal, Maher M. – 2002
A study tested predictions for I/E (internal external) frame of reference model and extended this model to include locus of control. A sample of upper elementary (n=181) and junior high (n=191) students in the United Arab Emirates participated in the study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses provided support to the external comparison…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Bastick, Tony; Cook, Loraine – 2002
This study examined the use of two locus of control instruments for teachers in the Caribbean: the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Locus of Control (LOC) Scale (T. Wolf, M. Sklov, M. Hunter, and G. Berenson, 1982) and the Medway and Rose Teachers' LOC Scale (F. Medway and J. Rose, 1981). Participants were 183 teachers from 10 high…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewedKleiber, D.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1973
The purposes of this study were to test the validity of the item-pair dipolarity assumption, to change the format to avoid bipolar item pairing should the assumption prove untenable, establish a more definitive factor structure and explore its validity by relating it to other personality variables. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
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
