Career Ambition as a Way of Understanding the Relation Between Locus of Control and Self-Perceived Employability Among Psychology Students

It is hypothesized that Rotter's I-E variable mediates individual differences in supernatural and superstitious beliefs, with externals exhibiting more positive attitudes toward such phenomena. An approximately equal number of male and female introductory psychology students were selected as externals ( N = 20) and internals ( N = 23) from upper and lower quartiles of the Rotter I-E scale. All Ss were administered an attitude questionnaire assessing beliefs toward several paranormal, occult, and pseudoscientific phenomena. Analysis via a 2 × 2 (I-E Control × Sex) analysis of variance strongly confirmed the hypothesis ( p < .01). Although not predicted, females, regardless of I-E status, were much more favorably disposed toward such phenomena than males ( p < .01). Differences in more general attitudes toward both religion and science are suggested as mediating the over-all I-E and sex differences.

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Perception of Personality and Social Behaviour in Different Racial Groups by Black and White University Students

South African Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1177/008124638401400303 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 79-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

D.J.A. Edwards

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

University Students ◽

Human Nature ◽

Social Behaviour ◽

Psychology Students ◽

First Year ◽

Racial Groups ◽

Black And White ◽

Internal Locus Of Control ◽

Group Rating

One hundred and eighty-six white and 225 black first-year psychology students at the universities of Rhodes and Fort Hare completed a modified form of Wrightsman's Philosophy of Human Nature scale as a measure of perception of one of five race groups. Black respondents perceived their own group as more Trustworthy, Conventionally Good and Variable and as more Altruistic (male respondents only). Blacks were most Cynical about the white group and rated them lower than blacks or coloureds on Trustworthiness and on Altruism. Unexpectedly, white respondents had a relatively unfavourable perception of their own group, rating it lower than other groups on Trustworthiness, Altruism (female respondents only) and Conventional Goodness and having the highest Cynicism scores for their own group. Whites perceived indians particularly favourably, rating them high on Trustworthiness, Altruism, Conventional Goodness, Independence and Strength of Will/Rationality, and being least Cynical about them. Whites rated blacks low on Strength of Will/Rationality which was interpreted to mean that blacks were perceived to have low internal locus of control (a perception not shared by the black respondents themselves).

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Relationship between Locus of Control and Maladaptive Fears

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1982.50.3c.1249 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 50 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1249-1250 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gary S. Traub

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Linear Relationship ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Introductory Psychology ◽

Fear Survey Schedule

The Rotter I-E Scale and the Fear Survey Schedule were administered to 205 introductory psychology students. All but one of the 89 items on the fear schedule were related to externality and 66 of these correlations reached statistical significance. Over-all fear as reflected in the total score on the schedule was also significantly related to externality ( r = .40, p < .001). Contrary to the hypothesis of Phares (1976), there was no U-shape relationship between locus of control and fear. In general, the results support a linear relationship between externality and fear for college students.

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Internal and External Locus of Control as Determinants of Decision Making in a Game of Skill

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1978.42.3c.1311 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1311-1314 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gary R. Elkins ◽

Samuel W. Cochran

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Psychology Students ◽

External Locus ◽

Competitive Game ◽

Undergraduate Psychology ◽

External Locus Of Control ◽

Person Game

This study investigated decision making in internally and externally motivated persons as they interacted in a competitive game of skill. Subjects were 36 internally and 36 externally scoring graduate and undergraduate psychology students. All possible pairings of internal and external subjects were involved in a competitive two-person game. The game of skill required participants to bid against each other to purchase tokens which were auctioned. The results indicated that internal subjects made decisions reflecting a greater expenditure of resources and time than external subjects.

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Voorspellers van toekomstige inzetbaarheid van psychologiestudenten

Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken ◽

10.5117/2009.025.001.010 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nele De Cuyper ◽

Hans De Witte ◽

Anja Van den Broeck ◽

Sylvie De Meyer

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Clinical Psychology ◽

Educational Level ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Perceived Employability ◽

Work Involvement ◽

Study Results ◽

Mother's Educational Level

Antecedents of future employability among psychology students Antecedents of future employability among psychology students The aim of the present study is to investigate possible antecedents of perceived employability in a sample of psychology students (N = 370). Employability is defined as the perceived chances of employment (quantitative employability) or employment according to the educational profile (qualitative employability). The antecedents concern individual characteristics: human capital (study results and the number of repeated years), social capital (educational level of the student's mother and father), attitudes (work involvement) and personality (self-esteem). We furthermore investigate the extent to which contextual variables (the specific study discipline) contribute in explaining variance in perceived employability. The results show that self-esteem and a major in clinical psychology contribute in explaining quantitative employability. Self esteem is positively and a major in clinical psychology is negatively related to quantitative employability. The number of repeated years and a major in clinical psychology are negatively related to qualitative employability, and the mother's educational level and self-esteem are positively related to qualitative employability.

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Some Cues against the Cross-Cultural Validity of Locus of Control as a Basic Personality Trait

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1995.80.3c.1139 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 80 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1139-1144

Author(s):

Felice Perussia

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Personality Trait ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

External Locus ◽

Control Scale ◽

Cultural Validity ◽

Two Samples

A scale, containing the three most representative items of Rotter's Internal-External locus of control scale, embedded in a broader series of items (about general life themes) in Liken format, was administered in two studies to two samples of 437 adult individuals and of 380 psychology students, both in Italy. Analysis showed no significant correlations among the ratings of the three items of Rotter for both samples. Moreover, responses to these three items were included in different factors yielded by a factor analysis of the total series of items, over both samples. The data suggest that locus of control (in the sense of Rotter) may reflect independent traits and values rather than discrete aspects of personality. For the most part such values seem to depend on the cultural context of reference.

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Toward an Abbreviated Internal-External Locus of Control Scale

Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance ◽

10.1080/00256307.1981.12022241 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 229-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert M. Harris ◽

Paul R. Salomone

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

External Locus ◽

Control Scale ◽

External Locus Of Control

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Umgang mit illegalen Drogen im »bürgerlichen« Milieu: Zum Steuerungseinfluss formeller und informeller Sozialkontrolle – Erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie

SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice ◽

10.1024/suc.2000.46.2.101 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 101-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karl Mann ◽

Klaus Ackermann

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

Peer Group ◽

Internal Locus ◽

Internal Locus Of Control ◽

Erste Ergebnisse

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden erste Ergebnisse eines Pilotforschungsprojektes vorgestellt, dessen empirischer Fokus auf das in der bundesrepublikanischen Drogenforschungslandschaft weitgehend ausgesparte Feld eines sozial integrierten Umgangs mit illegalen Drogen in gesellschaftlich etablierten Sozialkontexten gerichtet ist. Besonderes Interesse gilt dem Vermittlungsgeschehen zwischen formeller und informeller sozialer Kontrolle: Wie geht der Einzelne mit konfligierenden Botschaften einer auf ein generelles Drogenverbot abgestellten Rechtssphäre und dem darauf abgestellten institutionellen Kontext strafrechtlicher und sozialmedizinischer Kontrolle einerseits und etwaigen gebrauchsmotivierenden Botschaften der Peer-Group, des Freundes- und Bekanntenkreises andererseits um? </P><P> Innerhalb der Pilotphase wurden 34 sozial integrierte Konsumenten diverser illegaler Drogen interviewt. Die Stichprobenbildung folgte der Methode des Snowball Samplings. Die bisherigen Beobachtungen lassen sich zu zwei für den weiteren Forschungsverlauf relevanten Arbeitshypothesen verdichten: <UL><LI>Der Drogenkonsum untersteht offenbar in der Selbstwahrnehmung im Sinne einer Selbstattribution einem ›internal locus of control‹. <LI>Auch wenn es trotz des bestehenden Drogenverbots zum Konsum illegaler Drogen kommt, scheint mit dem Verbotsstatus bestimmter Substanzen häufig ein informeller Kontrolleinfluss assoziiert, welcher Konsum regulierend unterhalb der Schwelle des generalpräventiven Anspruchs des BtMGs wirksam wird.</UL>

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Reliabilität und Validität der deutschsprachigen Version der Generalized Expectancies for Negative Mood Regulation (NMR) Scale

Diagnostica ◽

10.1026/0012-1924.54.1.43 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 43-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Matthias Backenstrass ◽

Nils Pfeiffer ◽

Thomas Schwarz ◽

Salvatore J. Catanzaro ◽

Jack Mearns

Keyword(s):

Locus Of Control ◽

Big Five ◽

Negative Mood ◽

Mood Regulation ◽

Reliabilität Und Validität ◽

Negative Mood Regulation ◽

Generalized Expectancies

Zusammenfassung. Generalisierten Erwartungen über die Regulation negativer Stimmungen (im englischen Original: generalized expectancies for negative mood regulation; NMR) wird in Bezug auf die Affektregulation große Bedeutung beigemessen. Catanzaro und Mearns (1990) hatten zur Messung dieser Erwartungen einen Fragebogen mit 30 Items konstruiert (NMR Scale). An mehreren Stichproben konnten sie die psychometrische Güte der NMR Scale bestätigen. Die vorliegende Studie untersuchte mit einer Stichprobe von N = 474 Personen die Reliabilität und Validität der deutschen Form der NMR Scale. Die Gesamtskala wies ein Cronbachs Alpha von .84 und eine Retest-Reliabilität von .88 über ein Zeitintervall von 4 Wochen auf. Eine explorative Faktorenanalyse legte eine eindimensionale Struktur des Itempools nahe. Bedeutsame Zusammenhänge zum Geschlecht oder Alter der Probanden ergaben sich nicht. Die NMR Skala korrelierte signifikant mit Maßen des affektiven und insbesondere depressiven Befindens (PANAS und BDI), was im Einklang mit den theoretischen Annahmen stand. Weiterhin ergaben sich bedeutsame Zusammenhänge der NMR Skala mit locus-of-control Variablen (FKK) und den “Big Five“ (NEO-FFI). Die Ergebnisse replizierten somit die Resultate, die mit der Originalversion ermittelt worden waren, so dass auch bei der deutschen Adaptation der NMR Scale von einem reliablen und validen Instrument auszugehen ist.

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Doctoral Training of Psychology Students in France

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027//1016-9040.8.1.3 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 3-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christine Roland-Lévy

Keyword(s):

Doctoral Programs ◽

Psychology Students ◽

Doctoral Training ◽

University System ◽

The Third ◽

Conducting Research ◽

The University ◽

Psychology Doctoral ◽

Phd Programs ◽

Phd Program

Abstract: The aim of doctoral programs in psychology is to help students become competent psychologists, capable of conducting research and of finding suitable employment. Starting with a brief description of the basic organization of the French university system, this paper presents an overview of how the psychology doctoral training is organized in France. Since October 2000, the requisites and the training of PhD students are the same in all French universities, but what now differs is the openness to other disciplines according to the size and location of the university. Three main groups of doctoral programs are distinguished in this paper. The first group refers to small universities in which the Doctoral Schools are constructed around multidisciplinary seminars that combine various themes, sometimes rather distant from psychology. The second group covers larger universities, with a PhD program that includes psychology as well as other social sciences. The third group contains a few major universities that have doctoral programs that are clearly centered on psychology (clinical, social, and/or cognitive psychology). These descriptions are followed by comments on how PhD programs are presently structured and organized. In the third section, I suggest some concrete ways of improving this doctoral training in order to give French psychologists a more European dimension.

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