Contingency of Parental Rewards and Punishments as Antecedents of Locus of Control
Description:
The study investigated the relationships between perceived contingency of parental rewarding and punishing behaviors and locus. of control. Scores on Levenson's Internal, Powerful Others, and Chance locus of control scales were correlated with scores on Yates, Kennelly, and Cox's (1975) Perceived Contingency of Rewards and Punishments Questionnaire. Few significant correlations were obtained. Maternal non-contingent reward related negatively and significantly to internality for males. Paternal…
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Date:
August 1976
Creator:
Patterson, David Roy
Partner:
UNT Libraries