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Family Correlates Of Daughter’S And Son’S Locus Of Control Expectancies During Childhood, Erin Tully, Jackson M. Gray, Sherryl H. Goodman, Stephen Nowicki Jr.

Psychology Faculty Publications

Children who expect they can bring about good outcomes and avoid bad outcomes tend to experience more personal successes. Little is known about factors that contribute to these ‘control expectancies’. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether children’s internal control expectancies occur in the context of parents’ internal control expectancies, low family strain, and high family cohesiveness and whether these factors are more strongly related to daughters’ than sons’ control expectancies. A community sample of 85 children aged 9 to 11 years old and their parents (85 mothers; 63 fathers) completed rating scales. Fathers’ more internal control …