Is health locus of control A 3-factor or A 2-factor construct?

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 559-568

  Talbot, France ^a   Nouwen, Arie ^a   Gauthier, Janel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUEBEC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0029785715     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199609)52:5<559::AID-JCLP11>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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