Locus of Control and Peer Status: A Scale for Children's Perceptions of Social Interactions
| Autor: | Lynnda M. Dahlquist, Donald R. Ottinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
| Předmět: |
Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) Popularity Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology Locus of control Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Convergent validity Scale (social sciences) Perception Psychology Reliability (statistics) Social desirability media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality Assessment. 47:278-287 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7752 0022-3891 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15327752jpa4703_9 |
| Popis: | A total of 985 third through sixth grade children participated in the development of a 48-item Locus of Control Scale for Children's Perceptions of Social Interactions (LOC-CPSI). Scores are based on the number of positive, negative, and total social reinforcers a child attributes to his or her own behavior (internal control). A social desirability subscale is included. Reliability coefficients were comparable to or greater than those of existing locus of control measures. Convergent validity was demonstrated by low, significant correlations with other locus of control measures. Internal scores correlated significantly with sociometric measures of popularity and predicted peer status better than other locus of control measures. Theoretical implications and potential clinical application are discussed. |
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