Publication Date
4-1974
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Clinton Layne, Sam McFarland, James Craig
Degree Program
Department of Psychology
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
Members of adult Sunday School classes from seven churches in Bowling Green, Kentucky, were administered Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The seven churches were also ranked by ministers on a continuum of doctrinal closedness-openness. The hypothesis stated that there would be a difference among churches according to mean internal-external control scores. It was also hypothesized that the members of the more doctrinally closed churches would tend to score as more externally controlled. Analysis of covariance indicated that the churches did differ significantly on the internal-external control scale but the doctrinally closed churches tended to be more internal than the doctrinally open churches.
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
McGloshen, Thomas Jr., "Internal Versus External Locus of Control & Religious Preference" (1974). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2610.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2610