Past research has focused on general control beliefs with little attention to whether control beliefs vary across domains. Also, most age-comparative studies have examined control beliefs in younger and older adults but not in middle-aged adults. This study examined assessments of control in 7 domains for a large probability sample of adults 25-75 years in age. Results revealed differential age...

Background and Objectives: Despite the large number of research and measures focusing on substance abuse tendency in Iran, the identification of factors preventing drug addiction and tendency is still a matter of fundamental importance. Regarding this, the present study was conducted to examine the mediating role of self-control in the effectiveness of religious beliefs on tendency to addiction...

The present research reveals the bi-directional relationship between career-related control beliefs and strivings, and their predictive relationship with hours of gainful employment. Three waves of data of a longitudinal study of 532 graduating high school seniors from four ethnically diverse schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Th...

the most well-known uni-arribute control chart used to monitor the number of nonconformities per unit is the shewhart type c-chart. in this paper, a new method is proposed in an attempt to reduce the false alarm rate in the c-chart. to do this, the decision on beliefs (dob) concept is first uti [1] corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]   lized to design an iterat...

The authors investigated whether general and domain-specific control beliefs were related to stigmatizing physical appearance qualities in young, middle-aged, and older adults. Being babyfaced, unattractive, or short was associated with diminished control beliefs in young and middle adulthood, whereas being overweight was not. Those who were less attractive, more babyfaced, shorter, or heavier ...

was related to adverse changes in control beliefs during the six year follow up (results not shown), suggesting that adult socioeconomic conditions further contribute to beliefs of low control. More information is needed on the specific socioeconomic correlates that induce beliefs of low control as these may be easier to modify than the beliefs themselves. Low job control may be one of these co...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Maintaining perceived psychological control in older adulthood is beneficial for health, well-being, and adjustment to chronic illness. Theoretically, control over specific, personally meaningful domains should inform general control beliefs. Thus, the objective of the present study was to examine perceived control over the exercise domain (operationalized as exercise inten...