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Dimensions of Internal‐External Locus of Control and the Women's Liberation Movement
Author(s) -
Sanger Susan Phipps,
Alker Henry A.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1972.tb00050.x
Subject(s) - ideology , locus of control , protestant work ethic , protestantism , control (management) , movement (music) , sociology , social psychology , gender studies , feminism , psychology , political science , aesthetics , law , philosophy , management , economics , politics , capitalism
Fifty feminist (WL) and 50 control subjects were administered Rotter's Internal‐External scale and a series of questions concerning their backgrounds and their attitudes about and involvement in the women's movement. Three dimensions emerged from a factor analysis of the I‐E items: personal control, protestant ethic ideology, and feminist ideology. The WL subjects were more internal than the control subjects in their sense of personal control and more external in protestant ethic ideology (PEI) and feminist ideology. Externality on these two dimensions was shown to be related to involvement in the feminist movement. Rejection of PEI was accompanied by an increased sense of personal internality for the feminists.