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The spheres of control scale: 10 yr of research
Delroy L. Paulhus,Mark Van Selst +1 more
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The Spheres of Control Scale comprises three scales: Personal, Interpersonal, and Socio-Political Control as mentioned in this paper, which has been used in a wide variety of studies to assist researchers using this instrument.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 133 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scale (ratio).read more
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Life satisfaction among older people (65+) with reduced self-care capacity: the relationship to social, health and financial aspects.
TL;DR: Life satisfaction in older people with reduced self-care capacity is determined by several factors, with social, physical, mental and financial aspects probably interacting with each other; especially feeling lonely, degree of self- care capacity, poor overall health, feeling worried and poor financial resources in relation to needs.
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Cultural meaning of perceived control: A meta-analysis of locus of control and psychological symptoms across 18 cultural regions.
TL;DR: This meta-analysis investigated whether the magnitude of the relationship between LOC and psychological symptoms differed among cultures with distinct individualist orientations and whether depression and anxiety symptoms yielded different patterns of cultural findings with LOC.
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Research into Questionnaire Design: A Summary of the Literature:
Petra Lietz,Petra Lietz +1 more
TL;DR: Some consider responding to survey questions as a sophisticated cognitive process whereby respondents go through, often iterative, steps to process the information provided to them by questions and respond accordingly.
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The influence of personality traits and persuasive messages on entrepreneurial intention: A cross‐cultural comparison
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined persuasion and personality variables as predictors of entrepreneurial intention in a cross-cultural sample. But they found that the decision to become an entrepreneur comes about differently in different cultures.
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A Field Study of Factors Related to Supervisors' Willingness to Mentor Others.
TL;DR: This paper examined factors thought to be related to intention to mentor and perceived barriers to mentoring (i.e., willingness to mentor) among 607 state government supervisors and found that age, locus of control, and upward striving were among the factors related to intentions to mentor others.
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An inventory for measuring depression
TL;DR: The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out and a wide variety of psychiatric rating scales have been developed.
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Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of reward or reinforcement on preceding behavior depend in part on whether the person perceives the reward as contingent on his own behavior or independent of it, and individuals may also differ in generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
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The Self-Efficacy Scale: Construction and Validation:
Mark Sherer,James E. Maddux,Blaise Mercandante,Steven Prentice-Dunn,Beth Jacobs,Ronald W. Rogers +5 more
TL;DR: Self-efficacy theory asserts that personal mastery expectations are the primary determinants of behavioral change as discussed by the authors, and it is suggested that individual differences in past experiences and attri-...
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A locus of control scale for children.
TL;DR: The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale appears to offer an objective, relatively precise, quick method for assessing a generalized belief in locus of control and is a significant correlate of a number of competence related behaviors in children as mentioned in this paper.
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A Self-Administering Scale for Measuring Intellectual Impairment and Deterioration
TL;DR: A self-administering scale for measuring Intellectual Impairment and Deterioration is described in this paper, which is based on the Self-Administering Scale (SASS).