The sense of effectiveness in public affairs.

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Concerned with the question of "the position of the sense of effectiveness in the individual''s psychological structure" Douvan and Walker derived their material for this study from a sample survey of 316 labor force members in Detroit, Mich. They found a moderate but consistent relation between the "sense of effectiveness in public affairs" and the "feeling of competence in a variety of areas in the more immediate environment of personal affairs." They conclude, as a result of their study, that "to a statistically significant though small degree, personality variables do contribute to the person''s orientation toward public affairs." In their opinion the "sense of effectiveness is consistently related to a more general personal orientation" regardless of whether it is measured by questions on every-day planning or by projective techniques.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: