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ERIC Number: EJ302098
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Personal Reaction Scale for College and Noncollege Adults: Its Development and Factorial Validity.
Galejs, Irma; And Others
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v44 n2 p383-93 Sum 1984
The Personal Reaction Scale was developed as a test for adults to measure their locus of control perceptions. It was administered to women college students, their parents, and parents of preschool children. Responses were factor analyzed to yield six factors: Fate, Social Self, Personal Self, Self-Determination, Luck, and Powerlessness. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, College Students, Factor Structure, Higher Education, Locus of Control, Parents, Personality Traits, Test Construction, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Luck; Nowicki Strickland Internal External Scale; Personal Reaction Scale; Rotter Internal External Locus of Control Scale
Note: Journal Paper No. J-10988, of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 2478.