The Nowicki–strickland Life-Span Locus of Control Scales: Construct Validation

Nowicki, Stephen; Duke, Marshall P.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-443202-4.50006-4

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“…In the latter analysis, while in the group of younger children attachment predicted the locus of control, in the group of older children maltreatment was the predictor variable. In addition, the locus was more internal in the CG in both age groups, in both the secure and insecure subjects, in line with what was found by La Montagne (LaMontagne 1984(LaMontagne , 1987 and Nowicki and Duke (1983), while this was external in the MG, regardless of the type of attachment, and even more external in the older subjects.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

“…The results of these studies show that, with advancing age, the locus of control changes from external to internal (LaMontagne 1984(LaMontagne , 1987Nowicki & Duke 1983) and that the perception of greater control over events stems from the fact that more sophisticated cognitive skills are gained with age (Lefcourt 1982). This lead to the question: what happens to child victims of maltreatment?…”

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confidence: 99%

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Locus of control in maltreated children: the impact of attachment and cumulative trauma

Roazzi

Attili

Pentima

et al. 2016

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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Up until now research studies carried out on abused children have rarely taken in consideration the impact of maltreatment on the locus of control; furthermore results concerning the distribution of attachment internal models in this population are inconclusive. In addition, no study has ever taken in consideration the differential role of attachment and time of exposure to stress in the formation of attributive styles. This research work involved 60 maltreated children and 100 controls with the purpose of evaluating the associations between their attachment and age as for their locus of control. Internal Working Models were assessed by SAT and locus of control by the Nowicki-Strickland Scale. Results highlight mainly external locus of control and disorganized and avoidant IWMs in abused children. Furthermore, age was more predictive than attachment for locus of control. By contrast, in the control group at both age taken in consideration attachment was predictive of locus of control. Results are discussed in terms of problematic symptoms associated to maltreatment.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Locus of control in maltreated children: the impact of attachment and cumulative trauma

Roazzi

Attili

Pentima

et al. 2016

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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“…Paddock et al (1998) and Paddock et al (2000) have reported that individuals with an external locus of control are more vulnerable to suggestion and, consequently, more likely to commit source-monitoring errors. The college form of the Adult Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale (ANSIE; Nowicki & Duke, 1983) was used to measure locus of control. Participants respond yes or no, as applicable, to this 40-item measure.…”

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Habitual acceptance of misinformation: Examination of individual differences and source attributions

Cann

Katz

2005

Memory & Cognition

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This study identifies individuals who are habitually susceptible to accepting postevent misinformation across testing on three separate events. The results indicate that those individuals identified as habitually susceptible exhibited higher dissociation scores and less of an association between memory accuracy and confidence than did the individuals identified as nonhabitually susceptible. When they were asked to identify the source of the remembered information, similar patterns of source attributions were found for all individuals when they were responding correctly and incorrectly to nonmisinformation and when they were correctly rejecting items of misinformation. Importantly, from a source-monitoring perspective, individuals identified as habitually susceptible demonstrated a different pattern of source attributions than did those classified as nonhabitually susceptible when they were accepting misinformation. Habitually susceptible individuals were as likely to attribute the source of their memory incorrectly to something seen in the experienced event as to attribute it correctly to something read after the fact.

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“…The Thornton Self-Esteem Scale provides a unidimensional measure of self-esteem (Beckett et al, 1996). The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale assesses the extent to which respondents believe events are contingent on their behaviors and the extent to which they believe events are controlled externally (Nowicki & Duke, 1982). The Social Response…”

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confidence: 99%