Selection-pressure induces a shift towards more internal scores on Rotter's 1-E Locus of Control scale

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  De Brabander, Bert ^a   Hellemans, Johan ^a   Boone, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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