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Locus of control and control perceptions and the relationship between life stress and psychological disorder
Author(s) -
Nelson Dean W.,
Cohen Lawrence H.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00896604
Subject(s) - locus of control , psychology , health psychology , perception , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , multilevel model , public health , medicine , nursing , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science
Conclusion The deleterious effects of negative life events were demonstrated, even with a relatively restricted range of negative experiences and the inclusion of a number of statistical controls. Employing a conservative multivariate regression model and a prospective design, the present study found that negative life events were consistently positively related to measures of psychological disorder. There was, however, no evidence for the moderating effects of dispositional locus of control beliefs and control perceptions of experienced life events, and it seems that the field awaits more refined conceptualization and measurement of life experiences and hypothesized moderator variables before explanatory and predictive models will yield significant and consistent returns.