Health Locus of Control and Voluntary Use of Seat Belts among High School Students
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 61 (1) , 315-319
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1985.61.1.315
Abstract
An 18-item Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale published by Wallston, Wallston, and DeVellis in 1978 was given to 124 high school students, 59 of whom wore seat belts and 65 of whom did not. It was hypothesized that nonseat-belt wearers were more likely to be externally oriented than seat-belt wearers but this was not confirmed. Strong scoring internal subjects were not found in this sample of students.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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