Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese-Americans
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 25 (3) , 176-187
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002076407902500303
Abstract
A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, marital status, SES, kinship and friendship tie, and amount of life change. The evidence showed that locus of control is an important determinant of Chinese-Americans' symptomatology. It accounted for a greater proportion of the variance in the two indices of psychological distress than did the other independent variables.Keywords
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