A Locus of Control Scale for Noncollege as Well as College Adults

Nowicki, Stephen; Duke, Marshall P.

doi:10.1080/00223891.1974.10119950

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“…The Nowicki-Strickland InternalExternal Scales (ANS-IE; Nowicki & Duke, 1974) was used to assess locus of control orientations in students with and without cognitive disabilities. The ANS-IE is one of the most widely used assessments of locus of control.…”

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The role of positive psychology constructs in predicting life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities: An exploratory study

Shogren

Lopez

Wehmeyer

et al. 2006

The Journal of Positive Psychology

132

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Positive psychology has begun to foster change in the study of adolescence by directing increased attention to the importance of building on adolescents' strengths and abilities as a means to promote positive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between hope, optimism, locus of control, self-determination, and life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities using structural equation modeling. The results demonstrated comparability in the measurement of each of these constructs in adolescents with and without disabilities. Hope, optimism, locus of control, and self-determination were strongly correlated, and hope and optimism predicted life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities. The implications of the findings for future research are discussed.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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The role of positive psychology constructs in predicting life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities: An exploratory study

Shogren

Lopez

Wehmeyer

et al. 2006

The Journal of Positive Psychology

132

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“…Internal-External questionnaire (Nowicki and Duke, 1974a), which had been reported by parents at the 12 th week of gestation of the ALSPAC children. 10 Responses to the twelve self-completed questions are then aggregated to create maternal and paternal LOC scores, with higher values representing more external LOC.…”

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Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

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We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the extent to which individuals believe that their actions can influence future outcomes. Using a unique British cohort survey, we show that maternal LOC measured during the 1st-trimester strongly predicts early and late child cognitive and noncognitive outcomes. Further, we utilize the variation in maternal LOC to improve the specification typically used in the estimation of parental investment effects on child development.

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“…Each of the 154 items of the SCS were answered with a 5-point Likert scale ranging from Strongly Disagree (1) to Strongly Agree (5). Six subscales were included and hypothesized to predict willingness to AC: a) self-esteem (16 questions) from Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Scale, b) optimism (8 questions) from Scheier and Carver's (1985) Life Orientations Scale, c) personal control (25 questions) from the Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale (Nowicki & Duke, 1974;Strickland, 1989), d) group cohesion (20 questions) from the Wheeless, Wheeless, and Dickson-Markman (1982) Group Cohesion Measure, and e) extroversion (9 questions) from the Extroversion/Introversion scale of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1985). Each subscale was refined slightly from the original to fit a corporate culture.…”

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“…More specifically, we hypothesized propensity to AC to be a function of self-esteem, belongingness (or group cohesion), and empowerment (Geller, Roberts, & Gilmore, 1992). The empowerment construct (implied by the self-affirmation, "I can make a difference") was presumed to vary directly with perceptions of optimism (Scheier & Carver, 1985, 1993, and personal control (Rotter, 1966;Nowicki & Duke, 1974). Whereas Roberts and Geller (in press) used only three survey questions to assess propensity to AC for safety, the survey for the present research included nine AC items.…”

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Predicting propensity to actively care for occupational safety

Geller

Roberts²,

Gilmore³

1996

Journal of Safety Research

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A 154-item safety culture survey (SCS) was administered to the employees of two industrial plants to test a model designed to predict individuals' willingness to "actively care" (AC) for the safety of coworkers. A total of 530 surveys were completed at a mean return rate of 89%. The regression analysis at each site (R 2 = .267 and .466) showed the same four subscales on the SCS (i.e., measures of personal control, group cohesion, extroversion, and reactance) to predict independent variance in employees' reported willingness to AC. Furthermore, a higher percentage of scales hypothesized to predict AC were significantly correlated with AC (i.e., 90 percent) than the scales hypothesized not to predict AC (i.e., 50 percent). Therefore, the results were largely consistent with theory (i.e., our AC model), except for the prominent impact of reactance on AC propensity. Thus, the results showed convergent and divergent validity of the AC model, while also suggesting specific theory refinements.

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A Locus of Control Scale for Noncollege as Well as College Adults

Cited by 422 publications

References 2 publications

The role of positive psychology constructs in predicting life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities: An exploratory study

The role of positive psychology constructs in predicting life satisfaction in adolescents with and without cognitive disabilities: An exploratory study

Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Predicting propensity to actively care for occupational safety

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