Is Alexithymia Distinct from Health Locus of Control?

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Wise ◽  
Lee S. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: Both locus of control and alexithymia have been considered personality factors fostering health concerns and behaviors. This study investigates the relationship between the health locus of control and alexithymia. Method: Seventy-eight psychiatric outpatients were administered the Wallston Health Locus of Control Scale (HLC), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (HLC), and the Five Factor Inventory, which measures neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Depressive and anxious affect was also measured. Regression models were developed to assess the influence of the above variables upon alexithymia. Results: Although there was a significant bivariant correlation between an external locus of control and increased alexithymia, regression models found that HLC did not significantly predict TAS. Neuroticism, however, provided the most significant contribution to predict increased alexithymia. Conclusion: Neuroticism may link HLC and TAS due to the face validity of each construct. A sense of vulnerability is stated in each measure. This may foster somatic preoccupation. The data suggest HLC and TAS to be separate phenomena and further support the validity of alexithymia as a unique personality trait.

Self-Statements, Locus of Control, and Depression in Predicting Self-Esteem

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 1007-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent D. Philpot ◽  
W. Bruce Holliman ◽  
Stephen Madonna
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Beck Depression Inventory ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Adult Form ◽  
Automatic Thought ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

The contributions of frequency of positive and negative self-statements and their ratio, locus of control, and depression in prediction of self-esteem were examined. Volunteers were 145 college students (100 women and 45 men) who were administered the Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory-Adult Form, Automatic Thought Questionnaire—Revised, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. Intercorrelations suggested significant relationships among variables. The magnitude of the relationship was strongest between the frequency of negative self-statements and self-esteem. These results are consistent with and lend further support to prior studies of Kendall, et al. and Schwartz and Michaelson.

Examining the relationship between health locus of control and God Locus of Health Control: Is God an internal or external source?

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 931-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joni M Boyd ◽  
Sara Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
External Source ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Health Control ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
The Relationship

For many people, the influence of believing in a higher power can elicit powerful effects. This study examined the relationship between God control, health locus of control, and frequency of religious attendance within 838 college students through online surveys. Regression analysis showed that chance and external locus of control and frequency of religious attendance were significant and positive predictors of God Locus of Health Control. The association of powerful others external locus of control and God Locus of Health Control differed by race (stronger in non-Whites than Whites) and somewhat by gender (stronger in women than men). For some people, the role of a supreme being, or God, should be considered when designing programs for improving health behaviors.

Locus of control, moral disengagement in sport, and rule transgression of athletes

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju-Je Tsai ◽  
Chien-Hsin Wang ◽  
Hung-Jen Lo
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Moral Engagement ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
The Relationship

We explored the relationships among locus of control, moral disengagement in sport, and rule transgression of athletes and whether or not moral disengagement mediates the relationship between locus of control and rule transgression. The participants were 462 athletes at a college in Taiwan. The instruments were the Sport Locus of Control Scale, the Moral Disengagement in Sport Scale, and the Rule Transgression Scale. The results revealed that a high external locus of control was positively related to moral disengagement in sport and frequent rule transgression. The relationship between locus of control and rule transgression was mediated by moral disengagement in sport. We suggest that athletes with an external locus of control should receive moral education to the end of enhancing the quality of sports contests and competitions through fewer rule transgressions and greater moral engagement.

Internal-External Scores and Success on an ESP Task

1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arline L. Bronzaft
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Better Than

In an investigation of the relationship between Internal-External locus of control and success on an ESP task, 96 college students were given a shortened version of Rotter's I-E Control Scale and a task designed to measure ESP ability. As hypothesized, externals did better than internals on the ESP task.

Locus of Control and Self-Concept in a Status Offender Population

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Friedberg
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Status Offenders ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
Status Offender ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between locus of control and self-concept for 24 status offenders who were administered the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale. The results supported the hypothesis of a negative correlation between a high self-concept and an external locus of control ( r = –.62). Implications for clinicians were discussed.

Effects of Health Locus of Control and Health Value upon EMG Biofeedback Training

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Carlson ◽  
Claude V. Bridges ◽  
Patrick S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Emg Biofeedback ◽  
Biofeedback Training ◽  
Sigmoid Function ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Health Value ◽  
The Relationship

Subjects who scored highly internal or external on a health locus of control scale and who scored high or low on the value each attached to good health were each given two sessions of frontalis EMG biofeedback training in accordance with a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design. It was predicted that both internality and high health value would be positively associated with ability to control EMG and that these influences would combine additively. The predictions were not supported but a significant interaction between internality and health value was found. This interaction could be explained by assuming that both internality and high health value increased drive which in turn produced greater muscle tension, the relationship between drive and muscle tension being an ascending sigmoid function.

Cognitive Complexity-Simplicity as a Determinant of Internal-External Control

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 913-914
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Vacc ◽  
Nancy Nesbitt Vacc
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
External Control ◽  
External Locus ◽  
School Students ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship for 208 junior high school students between the Adapted Modified Role Repertory Test, a measure of cognitive complexity, and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale which measures locus-of-control. No significant correlation appeared.

Internal-External Dimension of Epistemic and Personality Factors and a Measure of Achievement Motivation

1998 ◽  
Vol 82 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1331-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver W. Hill ◽  
Lisa Huntley
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Field Independence ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Orientation Field ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Achievement Motive ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
Epistemic Orientation

This study examined associations among measures of epistemic orientation, field dependence-independence, locus of control, and the achievement motive. Subjects were assessed using the Psycho-Epistemological Profile, the Portable Rod and Frame Test, Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, and the Mehrabian Achieving Scale. Analysis of the correlation matrix indicated significant relations among Internal Epistemic Orientation, Field Independence, and Achievement Motive. A subsequent principal components factor analysis showed that the measure of achievement motive had a significant negative loading on the factor for an external locus of control. The implications were discussed.

Locus of Control and Effects of Perceptual Tasks on Heartrate

1985 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Johnson ◽  
Beverly E. Thorn
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Health Locus Of Control ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Multidimensional Health ◽  
The Relationship

The hypothesis was tested that the relationship found in prior research between heartrate changes produced in biofeedback settings and locus of control scores derives from the heart-brain relationship described by the Laceys in 1967, as well as from “expectancies for control.” 48 subjects were tested on two perceptual tasks known to elicit changes in heartrate. Significant heartrate changes were observed in response to both tasks, but those changes did not correlate with locus of control as measured by scores on the Rotter I-E Scale and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale. Explanations for these results are offered.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THINKING STYLES AND LEVEL OF EXTERNALITY: A STUDY Of TURKISH FEMALE PRESCHOOL STUDENT TEACHERS

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birsen Palut
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Control Scale ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
External Locus Of Control ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between thinking styles and level of externality is examined in this study in which 108 female preschool student teachers at Marmara University participated. The participants responded to the Thinking Style Inventory (TSI; Sternberg & Wagner, 1992) based on Sternberg's theory of mental self-government and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (RIELS; Rotter, 1966). The results revealed a close correspondence between thinking styles and level of externality. The findings showed that level of externality is negatively associated with legislative, judicial, hierarchic, global, and liberal thinking styles. The implications are discussed in detail.

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