title: Role-playing techniques: locus of control and the attraction to behavior simulation interventions.
abstract: This study investigated the relationship between internal-external locus of control and preferences to enact conflict situations designed as spontaneous, mimetic-replication or a combination of these two behavior simulation (role playing) conditions. Four groups of females, high-school students (N = 10 each), indicated their portrayal preferences on a Role Playing Situation Questionnaire. Two of these, an internal and an external group, participated in a task designed to create feelings of failure (lack of success) prior to taking the questionnaire. Spontaneous portrayals were preferred by internals, and portrayals that involved mimetic-replication were favored by externals. Unsuccessful internals preferred the combined spontaneous/mimetic-replication alternative more than did the other internals. The relationship between personality and role playing, as well as the implications for clinical uses of behavior simulation conditions, is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kipper
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010556:Personality Tests; D011577:Psychodrama / Q000379:methods*; D012381:Role Playing / Q000379:methods*