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Author: Doherty, William
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Doherty, William |
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Impact of Divorce on Locus of Control Orientation in Adult Women: A Longitudinal Study Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 44,4 (April 1983): 834-840. Also: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/44/4/834/ Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Divorce; Health, Mental/Psychological; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Marital Disruption; Marriage; Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control) Using longitudinal data for adult women from the NLS, this study examined the relation between getting divorced and changes in the individual's locus of control orientation. The sample contained 1,814 white women ages 32-46 years who were in their first marriage in 1969. Marital status and locus of control (an 11-item abbreviated version of Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale) were measured in 1969, 1972, and 1977. Based on previous literature on locus of control and life events and on divorce, stress, and mental health, the author hypothesized that divorced people, in comparison with those who remained married, would show a short-term increase in externality from 1969-1972, followed by a return over the next 5 years to levels of locus of control comparable to that of the group who remained married. It was also hypothesized that locus of control scores would not predict the likelihood of becoming divorced over the 8-year period. All three hypotheses were confirmed. The findings were discussed in the context of two larger theoretical issues: the influence of important life events on locus of control and the causal direction in the well-documented association between divorce and mental health. |
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Doherty, William. "Impact of Divorce on Locus of Control Orientation in Adult Women: A Longitudinal Study." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 44,4 (April 1983): 834-840.
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Doherty, William Baldwin, Cynthia |
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Shifts and Stability in Locus of Control During the 1970s: Divergence of the Sexes Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48,4 (April 1985): 1048-1053. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022351407603975 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Control; Gender Differences; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); Sex Roles Using NLS data from the Older Men, Mature Women, Young Men, and Young Women cohorts, this study investigates changes in locus of control orientation from the late 1960s through the late 1970s. Each subject was administered a locus of control scale three times over a seven or eight year period. The scale was an 11-item abbreviated version of Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (I-E; Rotter, 1966). The findings showed close similarity in locus of control scores among the four groups in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. However, by 1976-78 both groups of women had moved substantially toward the external end of the scale, while both groups of men remained basically unchanged. Changes in scores for women could not be accounted for by demographic factors entered into multiple regression analyses. The authors suggest a "cultural-shift" interpretation of the sex differences found: women in the mid-1970s became more aware of the external constraints on their ability to meet their goals in the labor force and other settings; as a group men presumably did not experience similar changes in their perceptions. Overall, the findings presented here document a major divergence between the sexes on perceived control during a decade when sex role issues reached national prominence. |
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Bibliography Citation
Doherty, William and Cynthia Baldwin. "Shifts and Stability in Locus of Control During the 1970s: Divergence of the Sexes." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48,4 (April 1985): 1048-1053.
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