The effect of traditional vs. counter‐culture attitudes on the relationship between the internal‐external scale and political position¹

Cross-Cultural Research With the Locus of Control Construct

“…Silvern and Nakamura suggest that the results are not cause for rejecting the I-E scale as "simply a political attitude mea-sure" (à la Thomas) Silvern (1975) showed that the relationship between LOC and political ideology that held for US Whites did not hold for Asian Americans and Hispanics. Silvern and Nakamura suggest that the results are not cause for rejecting the I-E scale as "simply a political attitude mea-sure" (à la Thomas) Silvern (1975) showed that the relationship between LOC and political ideology that held for US Whites did not hold for Asian Americans and Hispanics.…”