Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Internal-External Locus of Control Scale"”.
-
Locus of control and risk behavior among college students
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship if any between an individual's locus of control (internal or external) and their degree of engaging in risk behavior. Participants were male (N=8) and female (N=24) undergraduate college students from Rowan University. Rotter's …
-
A correlational study of the relationship between birth order and individual's locus of control
<p>The purpose of the current study was to uncover any possible correlational relationships between Individual's birth order and their locus of control. The Austrian psychologist, Alfred Adler, had some theories concerning birth order which were of particular interest to the author as the ideas for …
-
An Investigation of the Effects of Teachers' Locus of Control and Attribution Training upon Risk-Taking and Locus of Control of Pre-School Children
<p>he purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teachers' locus of control upon the locus of control and risk-taking behavior of four- and five-year old preschool children. The scores on Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale were used to assess the teachers' locus of …
-
An investigation of the relationship of locus of control and self-monitoring to body image in athletic populations
… n=9; female swimmers, n=10). Two administrations of four self-report questionnaires were completed. Psychological traits of locus of control and self-monitoring were compared to perceptions of body image and predisposition to eating disorders. Measurements used were Rotter Internal-External Locus …
-
Criminally responsible or insane? the influence of jurors' concept of self toward the insanity defense
… examined the relationship between jurors' locus of control and verdict. Three hypothetical insanity cases were constructed: mental illness, mental retardation, and drug intoxication, and were randomly distributed to 96 graduate students from a mid- Atlantic university. Participants read a …
-
Locus of control and the preference for directive or nondirective therapeutic techniques in a military personnel population
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between locus of control and psychotherapy preference and the variables of rank (employment and income levels), education level, age, race, and sex on a population outside of students and clinical or institutional patients. Also, the …
-
GENDER ROLE CONFLICT AND LOCUS OF CONTROL IN DETERMINING PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP SEEKING
… experience gender role conflict, due to a fear of femininity, and that this fear may inhibit some men from seeking help because many of the aspects of seeking help are considered feminine. The research also suggests that most men have more negative attitudes toward seeking help than women, as do …
-
Effects of task values, attributions, and cultural constructs on foreign language use anxiety among international teaching assistants
… This study explores how perceptions and values of foreign language learning affect foreign language use anxiety. Going beyond the perspective that foreign language anxiety is an individual personality characteristic, cultural constructs were used to investigate the influence of culture on …
-
The importance of the application of a note taking technique on high risk students as related to locus of control
… and note taking skill. The students' loci of control was determined to examine if this variable had an effect upon the students' achievement after they had received one of three treatment conditions. The three treatment conditions were: no instruction in note taking; instruction and …
-
Identification of high risk telecourse students utilizing locus of control and learning style
… stabilizing enrollment trends, many institutions of higher education have turned to offering telecourses. While telecourses are convenient and appeal to a certain segment of the student population, the attrition rate is higher than that of the equivalent on-campus classes. The purpose of this …
-
The Relationship Among Sense of Humor, Defense Style, Levels of Trait Anxiety, and Locus of Control
The purpose of this study was to explore the possible interrelatedness of sense of humor, defense mechanism style, level of trait-type anxiety, and locus of control; to compare any trait patterns that occur among these constructs; and to generate ideas about the significance of these patterns and …
-
Telling life stories and creating life books: a counseling technique for fostering resilience in children
… There is limited research on the efficacy of telling one's personal life story as a counseling technique, especially in the school setting. The purpose of this study was two-fold: (l) to describe and implement a technique for school counselors to use in individual counseling sessions to …
-
Prestasiemotivering by studente aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland.
The major objective of this study was to investigate the nature of the relationship between achievement motivation, autonomous and social achievement values, study habits and attitudes, locus of control and socio-economic status (SES) as independent variables on the one hand and the level of …