Relationship of Locus of Control to Preoperative Anxiety
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 37 (3_suppl) , 1115-1121
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1975.37.3f.1115
Abstract
Scores on Rotter's I-E scale and Zuckerman's Multiple Affect Adjective Check List, Today Form for 91 presurgical patients (18–85 yr.) were symmetrically distributed. When I-E scores were partitioned Externals were significantly more anxious than Internals, but the actual mean difference was small. About 10% of the variance in anxiety was accounted for by the r of .31 with I-E scores. Time of day of test was not critical.Keywords
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