The Spheres of Control scale: The identification of a clear replicable three-factor structure

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-131

  Spittal, Matthew J ^a   Siegert, Richard J ^a   McClure, John L ^a   Walkey, Frank H ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory factor analysis; Locus of control; Spheres of control scale; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037739081     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(01)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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