Selection of Skill or Chance Determined Reinforcement as a Function of Locus of Control
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 52 (1) , 43-46
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.52.1.43
Abstract
51 male and 45 female college students were given Rotter's I-E questionnaire and then allowed to volunteer to earn extra credit by attempting either a task for which supposedly skill determined outcome or one for which outcome supposedly was governed by chance. There was a significant correlation between I-E score and number of choices of skilled task. There was a non-significant difference between males' and females' I-E scores. An initially significant difference between males' and females' number of skill choices disappeared when the effect of differences in I-E scores was removed through analysis of covariance. Non-volunteers scored significantly more external than volunteers.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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