Internal-external control and persistence: Validation and implications of the Stanford Preschool Internal-External Scale.

1974/02/01 by Walter Mischel, Robert A. Zeiss, Robert Zeiss +2 · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Control (management) #Developmental psychology #Early Childhood Education and Development #Geography #Internal validity #Persistence (discontinuity) #Psychology #Scale (ratio) #Social psychology #Statistics

paper · doi:10.1037/h0036020

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• Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.
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