title: [A study of the locus of control in patients with renal transplants].
abstract: The locus of control (using I-E Rotter' Scale) maximum psychosocial adjustment level (according to Axis V of DSM-III) and other sociodemographic data were assessed in 31 patients with renal transplantation. 51.5% of the patient were not psychosocially adapted, and externality was the predominant locus of control. As far as psychosocial adjustment is concerned, no variation in the absolute as found in terms of Internality-Externality. Finally, there was a statistically significant correlation between some items of the Rotter' scale and psychosocial adjustment.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario San Carlos, Madrid.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carbonell Masia
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hernández Moreno
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Estudio del locus de control en pacientes trasplantados de riñón.