Correlates of locus of control among male alcoholics.
This study examined the relationship between internal-external control and several psychometric adjustment indices among 162 male alcoholics (mean age = 40.7) in an inpatient state vocational rehabilitation facility. Rotter's I-E scale was used to compare three subgroups of alcoholics (39 Internals, 82 Moderate scorers, and 41 Externals) on the Success-Failure Inventory, the Dogmatism Scale, the Future Outlook Inventory, the Alcadd Test, and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List. Internal alcoholics were found to be significantly more success-oriented, less dogmatic and more optimistic in future adjustment outlook. I-E subgroup differences on these measures were not dependent on age and IQ variability present between I-E levels. Results suggest that locus of control-adjustment correlates exist within alcoholic as well as within previously studied "normal" samples.
D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D001290:Attitude; D001318:Authoritarianism; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D006040:Goals; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012917:Social Adjustment