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Title: No Shift in Locus of Control Among Women During the 1970s
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Smith, Herbert L. Dechter, Aimee R. |
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No Shift in Locus of Control Among Women During the 1970s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 60,4 (April 1991): 638-640. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022351402022756 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Data Quality/Consistency; Internal-External Attitude; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control) Contrary to reports published previously (Doherty, 1983; Doherty and Baldwin, 1985), there is no evidence of a shift in locus of control among U.S. women during the 1970s--at least not as revealed by responses of female subjects from the NLS of Mature Women and Young Women to a battery of Rotter Scale items administered on three occasions during that decade. The authors show that the apparent shift toward more external responses is completely an artifact of uncorrected coding errors in earlier releases of these data. The absence of any true change in locus of control among these women raises substantial questions about theories put forward to explain this nonexistent shift. The authors counsel circumspection. |
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Smith, Herbert L. and Aimee R. Dechter. "No Shift in Locus of Control Among Women During the 1970s." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 60,4 (April 1991): 638-640.
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