Locus of Control and Perceived Utility of Feedback
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 46 (3) , 859-862
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.46.3.859
Abstract
75 men and 72 women (25 to 45 yr.) in undergraduate management courses were classified as internal and external in orientations on Rotter's I-E scale. The former perceived more informal sources of feedback such as self and co-workers as more useful but the latter perceived more formal sources as more useful. Observations are consistent with prior research.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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