Internal-External Control
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life.

11 Oct 2009 This study examined felt obligation to help others in two domains (close others and society) as protective factors against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline. Lagged-dependent regression models were estimated using data ... Read more...

Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: age and individual differences.

4 Oct 2009 Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined both age and individual differences in online emotion regulation after a negative mood induction. We found evidence that older adults were more likely to ... Read more...

Relational victimization predicts children's social-cognitive and self-regulatory responses in a challenging peer context.

30 Aug 2009 In this study, the authors examined whether exposure to relational victimization was associated with children's thoughts, emotions, and behavior in an unfamiliar, challenging peer context. Children (110 girls, 96 boys; mean age = 10.13 years, SD = ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Internal-External Control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life. 11 Oct 2009
• Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: age and individual differences. 4 Oct 2009
• Relational victimization predicts children's social-cognitive and self-regulatory responses in a challenging peer context. 30 Aug 2009
• Developmental links of adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and control with delinquency: moderation by parental support. 30 Aug 2009
• Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• The intergenerational continuity of observed early parenting: a prospective, longitudinal study. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational views of hardiness in critical care nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Physical function of patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 30 Aug 2009
• Factor structure of the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale for studies of youths with externalizing behavior problems. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of a new self-report measure of parental attributions. 30 Aug 2009
• The Child Behavior Scale (CBS) revisited: a longitudinal evaluation of CBS subscales with children, preadolescents, and adolescents. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress-induced laboratory eating behavior in obese women with binge eating disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Negative reinforcement eating expectancies, emotion dysregulation, and symptoms of bulimia nervosa. 30 Aug 2009
• Restraint, hunger, and disinhibition following treatment for binge-eating disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Anorexic self-control and bulimic self-hate: differential outcome prediction from initial self-image. 30 Aug 2009
• Municipal night nurses' experience of the meaning of caring. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: a multidimensional model of common and specific etiology. 30 Aug 2009
• Executive functioning, irritability, and alcohol-related aggression. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Internal-External Control'

Definition: Personality construct referring to an individual's perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own behavior versus fate, luck, or external forces. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1996).

Descriptor UI: D007389

Alternative terms: Internal-External Control; Control, Internal-External; Controls, Internal-External; Internal External Control; Internal-External Controls; Locus of Control; Control Locus;

Tree Number: F01.829.379;

History Note: 72

Technical Notes: no qualif