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Preliminary study of effect of decision making on locus of control among prison inmates
1School Psychology Department, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, 06515.
Psychological Reports
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
To study the effect of teaching decision-making to inmates in a maximum security facility on locus of control 19 adult male inmates who were incarcerated at a community correctional center were pre- and posttested on the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. In this preliminary study there was no statistically significant difference at pretest or posttest so teaching decision-making skills in group settings versus teaching in a group combined and one-to-one contact did not affect locus of control as measured. This personality trait appears stable over time and a more thorough means of intervention is required to effect change.