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Locus of control and achievement in child psychiatric inpatients

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The relationship between the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children (Nowicki & Strickland, 1973) and academic achievement was examined in a sample of 66 child psychiatric inpatients. Previous studies had suggested that this measure correlated with achievement in normal samples (Nowicki & Strickland, 1973) but not in populations of male juvenile offenders (Little & Kendall, 1978). The product-moment correlation between the Nowicki-Strickland Scale and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test was significant. However, when the effect of IQ was controlled for in a partial correlation, there was no significant correlation. Discussion focuses on the relationship between these results and other findings in the area of locus of control, intelligence, and achievement.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, 35487-2968, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

    Ronald L. Blount

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 29425, Charleston, South Carolina

    A. J. Finch Jr., Conway F. Saylor, Julia McIntosh, Jean M. Griffin & Donald J. Carek

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, Ontario, Canada

    Vicky V. Wolfe

  4. Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago, 60626, Chicago, Illinois

    Thomas P. Pallmeyer

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Blount, R.L., Finch, A.J., Saylor, C.F. et al. Locus of control and achievement in child psychiatric inpatients. J Abnorm Child Psychol 15, 175–179 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00916347

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