College students with an internal locus of control favored faculty members with a low control teaching style, while a highly controlling teaching style appealed to students with an external locus of control. (ED)

Most students, no matter the age, tend to do better academic work if they more readily accept personal academic successes and failures or are internally controlled. Students generally not doing average or above average work academically tend to depend on blame, luck, chance, or kismet for academic performance. (Author)

Separate factor analyses of the results of the Rotter Internal External Locus of Control Scale administered to separate Anglo American and Chicano groups indicated cross-sample equivalence on two of the five factors. Implications for investigations of the cultural differences between Anglos and Chicanos are briefly discussed. (Author/CTM)

The study compared need values and locus of control, as measured by Rotter's I-E Scale. The locus of control variable showed an already noted trend towards greater externality. (Author)

Relationships between children's self esteem, certainty of self esteem appraisal, and intellectual achievement responsibility were examined in boys and girls at the sixth grade and tenth grade levels with use of the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale and the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. (MS)

Considers the hypothesis that the open classroom is less threatening than other role postures of the teacher, with the outcome being that the child will come to direct his own learning experiences and will learn more fully and with less trauma than in other settings. (Author/RK)

Personal constructs of internally and externally oriented students were expected to engender different perceptions of teachers' use of behavior alteration techniques (BATs) in the classroom. Indicates that externally oriented students perceived more frequent BAT use by teachers than did internally oriented students, and that perceptions by…

Examined attribution patterns of 132 Japanese-American and 63 Anglo-American university students who completed Mathematics Attribution Scale, achievement motivation, anxiety, and self-esteem measures. Compared to Anglo-Americans, Japanese-Americans attributed their success in algebra more to external causes and attributed their failure in algebra…

Studied conditions and consequences, the characteristics of agentic (volitional, teleological) human behavior in investigations of weight control, vocational exploration, and eating disorders. Demonstrated the ability of individuals professing eating and exercise problems, to exhibit control; and in separate study examining personality factors and…

Outlines some classroom techniques and learning modes for helping children manage change. Activities should emphasize the exercise of choice and the possibility of alternative "right" answers. Creative lessons, class discussions, and writing activities help students make decisions and gain some control over their life directions. (MLH)

Reviews the literature documenting the impact of an internal locus of control orientation for efficacious families and describes how support systems can enhance an internal locus of control for parents and children. (BB)

Compared 19 pregnant and 20 nulliparous Black teenage women on personal and family history and psychosocial adjustment. The pregnant group had lower maternal educational level, later sex education, more brothers, better family adjustment, but poorer vocational adjustment, suggesting distinct characteristics but not family or psychological…

A matching model of instruction on independent variables of need level, cognitive style, and locus of control resulted in improved attitude toward science in general for ninth-grade physical science students (N=574). Although achievement and other attitudes did not improve, empirical evidence suggests some matching is better than none. (DH)

Presents a multivariate stress-mediation-outcome model for the researcher/practitioner and a synthesis of relevant Mexican American mental health research. Reviews research findings that fit the model and identifies gaps in the knowledge base. Reveals a striking lack of any systematic model or paradigm for guiding research among Hispanics. (NQA)

Measures of life stress, locus of control, world view, and values were administered to 91 Rosebud Sioux. Results provide some limited norms for local use of these measures and descriptive data for this tribe. The measures provide examples of culturally relevant, nondiscriminatory instruments for assessment of Native Americans. (Author)