Study Borg & Wächterhshäuser (1990): study XZ Germany West 1988

Public

Students and professionals, town Germany, 1988

Sample

Respondents

N = 264

Non Response

15%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Internal or external locus-of-control belief

Our Classification

Remarks

154 respondents were left out of consideration

Distribution

Predominantly internal (gt 87% on I-scale and lt 84% on P- and C-scales)were 47 repondents
Predominantly external (< 87 on I-scale and > 84 on P- and/or C-scale) were 63 respondents

Operationalization

Respondents were indicated as internal or external depending on their filling out the IPC questionnaire of Krampen (1981) by which they rate the locus-of-control as internal (I-scale) or external (P-scale = 'others"; C-scale = 'chance').

Observed Relation with Happiness