Paper based on a PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan (1968)

Investigated the concurrent validity of the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR), an instrument which measures locus of control in academic achievement situations. Teachers from nine elementary schools rated students in grades 3-6 as internal or external in academic achievement situations. These ratings were then compared with the…

Subjects rated each item in Rotter's I-E Scale for its social desirability value. Social desirability scale values (SDSV) of paired items were compared with one another. Results indicate that paired items are not similar in their SDSV, thus enabling subjects to respond on the basis of social desirability. (Author/DEP)

This article shows how the Health Belief Model, social learning theory, and locus of control may be related and posits an explanatory model that incorporates self-efficacy into the Health Belief Model. Self-efficacy is proposed as an independent variable with the traditional variables of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers.…

Correlational analysis suggested interactions among aspects of locus of control and aspects of death fear varying along the death/dying, self/other, and overt/covert continua. These data enable a more complete understanding of the role that perceived controllability of life events play in determining individual reactions to one's own or another's…

Calculates proportion of topic initiations (intrapersonal definition) and degree of topic determination (interpersonal definition) in counseling dyads. Results indicated regardless of definition, counselors had more control over the topic than clients, and for counselors, topic initiations had no relationship to actual topic control, whereas for…

Examined the relationship between locus of control and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients (N=59) through administration of Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Results suggested that both anxiety and a response set affect this population's rating of ability to control…

Examined the relationship of anxiety, assertiveness, and locus of control to bulimia in college students. Those in therapy for bulimia (N=23) scored lower in assertivenss than did other clients in therapy (N=15) or those in the nonclient control group (N=18). All clients showed greater anxiety than did controls. (Author/BH)

Thirty gifted children (grades six to eight) were allocated to either progressive muscle relaxation or biofeedback treatment groups or to a no-treament, control group. Biofeedback Ss evinced a significant decrease in anxiety and both groups moved towards more internal locus of control compared with controls. There was no change in trait anxiety.…

Three groups of women who varied in abortion status were formed to investigate the self-concept and locus of control of a total of 90 women. No significant differences in self-concept were found among the three groups, nor was there a relationship between locus of control and repeated abortion. (Author/ABB)

Examined relationships among specific personality variables, the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scales, and criterion-based ratings by staff dentists with dental outpatients (N=101). Found a consistent relationship between the perception that health is maintained by engaging in health-related behaviors and individual difference measures…

Discusses career counseling techniques and strategies which can be useful in working with Blacks who hold an external locus of control perception of their environment. Each is based on the counselor and Black youth being active and participating in short term, goal directed activities. (JAC)

Results of a study involving 63 emotionally disturbed boys (10-15 years old) revealed that Ss with a higher degree of internal lows of control (LOC) made greater gains in academic achievement. Ss' chronological ages and IQ cores did not affect their degree of internal LOC. (Author/CL)

Analysis of scores on the "Learning Styles Inventory" and "Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes" of 267 hearing impaired and 100 hearing college students revealed that externality was related to less effective educational attitudes, and that hearing impaired Ss were more internal than hearing Ss. (CL)

It was concluded that there seems to be a preference among intermediate level gifted/talented students for those instructional methods emphasizing independence, while students of the general population seem to prefer instructional methods with somewhat more structure. (Author)