Toward a more valid and reliable health locus of control scale
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 44 (4) , 536-540
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(198807)44:4<536::aid-jclp2270440409>3.0.co;2-3
Abstract
The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale was administered in conjunction with a back care program offered to staff at a psychiatric hospital (N = 82). Validity and reliability of the alternate forms were examined, as was the addition of Forms A and B. The factor structure failed to replicate the original multidimensional construct; hence, suggestions are made to return to the earlier internal/external model and to add the alternate forms to increase reliability.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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