Internal-External Control
"Internal-External Control" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Personality construct referring to an individual's perception of the locus of events as determined internally by his or her own behavior versus fate, luck, or external forces. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1996).
| Descriptor ID |
D007389
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.829.379
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| Concept/Terms |
Internal-External Control- Internal-External Control
- Control, Internal-External
- Controls, Internal-External
- Internal External Control
- Internal-External Controls
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Internal-External Control" by people in Profiles.
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Lynam I, Catley D, Goggin K, Rabinowitz JL, Gerkovich MM, Williams K, Wright J. Autonomous regulation and locus of control as predictors of antiretroviral medication adherence. J Health Psychol. 2009 May; 14(4):578-86.
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Catley D, Grobe JE. Using basic laboratory research to understand scheduled smoking: a field investigation of the effects of manipulating controllability on subjective responses to smoking. Health Psychol. 2008 May; 27(3S):S189-96.
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Murray TS, Goggin K, Malcarne VL. Development and validation of the alcohol-related God locus of control scale. Addict Behav. 2006 Mar; 31(3):553-8.