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Internal-External Control - Research News and Information
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Definition of 'Internal-External Control'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). Common names: Internal-External Control; Control, Internal-External; Controls, Internal-External; Internal External Control; Internal-External Controls; Locus of Control; Control Locus |
Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception.
Oct 2008
We present six experiments that tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, which we define as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random or unrelated stimuli. Participants who ... Read more...
29 Sep 2008
The study of prospective memory (ProM), the remembering of the delayed execution of intentions, has been growing in recent years, and we know quite a bit about the cognitive variables that affect it. But the performance of a task depends on ... Read more...
Dietary restraint and gestational weight gain.
29 Sep 2008
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a history of preconceptional dieting and restrained eating was related to higher weight gains in pregnancy. DESIGN: Dieting practices were assessed among a prospective cohort of pregnant women using the Revised ... Read more...
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Latest indexed articles for 'Internal-External Control'
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- Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception.
Oct 2008 - The effect of personality variables in the prediction of the execution of different prospective memory tasks in the laboratory.
29 Sep 2008 - Dietary restraint and gestational weight gain.
29 Sep 2008 - Effortful control, explicit processing, and the regulation of human evolved predispositions.
29 Sep 2008 - Relational aggression and victimization in gay male relationships: the role of internalized homophobia.
30 Aug 2008 - Aggressive challenging behaviour and intellectual disability.
30 Aug 2008 - Identifying psychosocial mediators of health amongst indigenous Australians for the Heart Health Project.
30 Aug 2008 - The views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities concerning advocacy: a focus group study.
30 Aug 2008 - The psychology of work.
30 Aug 2008 - Personal and task-related moderators of leader-member exchange among software developers.
30 Aug 2008 - Subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents: additional results from a "high-risk" study.
30 Aug 2008 - Self and other in schizophrenia: a cognitive neuroscience perspective.
13 Aug 2008 - Former patients' experience of psychiatric care: a qualitative investigation.
30 Jul 2008 - Validation and predictive utility of the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire for Eating Disorders (SATAQ-ED): internalization of sociocultural ideals predicts weight gain.
16 Jul 2008 - The protective effects of religiosity on maladjustment among maltreated and nonmaltreated children.
7 Jul 2008 - Early risk indicators of internalizing problems in late childhood: a 9-year longitudinal study.
29 Jun 2008 - Preliminary evidence that specific candidate genes are associated with adolescent-onset antisocial behavior.
29 Jun 2008 - Thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls: a test of the sociocultural model of eating disorders.
29 Jun 2008 - [Patient-oriented management of aggression and violence in psychiatry. Description of a training program and first results]
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29 Jun 2008
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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