Study Palmore (1981): study US 1968

Public

46+ aged whites, North Carolina, USA, followed from 1968 to 1976.

Sample

Respondents

N = 375

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Whole-day interviews, tests and examinations. Rounds in longitudinal study; examined period: 1968/70 N=502, 1970/72 N= 443, 1972/74 N= 378, 1974/76 N= 375

Correlate

Authors's Label

T1 internal control

Our Classification

Distribution

Males   :  M = 2,6: SD = 1,0
Females: M = 2,2; SD = 1,0

Operationalization

Index containing four pairs of statements e,g, "some of the good and some of the bad things in my life have happened by chance" (external control).
"What happened to me has been my own doing" (internal control).
Each S was asked which one of each pair is more true for him.
(from the Internal-External Control of Reinforcement Scale; see Jesson at al. (1968).
0= external
1= internal
Scale 0-4.
Assessed at T1.

Observed Relation with Happiness