The relationship of self-concept and locus of control with the achievement of 90 deaf adolescents was examined. Generally, parent hearing status and student self-concept were the most important predictors of achievement. (Author)

Argues that in order to understand how the capacity for altruism develops and comes under self-control it is necessary first to understand the nature and development of the self-control. (MP)

Locus of control scales were administered to 740 American Indian adults. Factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis substantiated previous findings with Blacks of a separation of personal control from ideological control. Clusters obtained with American Indians related to trust, personal control, race ideology, control ideology, and a…

Significant sex differences indicated that boys generally ate more than girls and held more internal locus of control expectancies. However, obese and normal-weighted children were not differentiated by their performance on either food-related measures nor by their locus of control expectancies. (Author/MP)

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…