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Locus of Control-Levels of Death Anxiety Relationships
Bert Hayslip,Duke Stewart-Bussey +1 more
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In an effort to understand locus of control-death fear relationships, fiftynine individuals were administered the Levenson Locus of Control scale, the Collett-Lester and Templer scales measuring overt death fear, and a sentence completion task assessing dimensions of covert fear.Abstract:
In an effort to more fully understand locus of control-death fear relationships, fifty-nine individuals were administered the Levenson Locus of Control scale, the Collett-Lester and Templer scales measuring overt death fear, and a sentence completion task assessing dimensions of covert fear. Correlational analysis suggested interactions among aspects of locus of control and aspects of death fear varying along the death/dying, self/other, and overt/covert continua. These data are felt to enable one to more completely understand the role that perceived controllability of life events play in determining individual reactions to one's own or another's death.read more
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6 – health locus of control scales1
TL;DR: Health is one of the many areas in which there has been a significant amount of interest in relating locus of control (LOCI beliefs) to a variety of relevant behaviors as discussed by the authors, however, this material has not reviewed this material again but will focus on work that has used the health-specific scales we developed.