Health Locus of Control of Health Fair Participants
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 49 (1) , 107-112
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1981.49.1.107
Abstract
This study was designed to identify those specific orientation characteristics of health fair participants and those of a control group. It was hypothesized first that health fair participants would exhibit greater internality than the control group. Second, level of education would correlate positively with internal scores. The first hypothesis was rejected; however, the second hypothesis was accepted in that high school or less educated had greater scores on powerful others and chance subscales.Keywords
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