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Desire for Control - Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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Desire for Control - Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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This book is a cumulation of a research program that began in the
sum mer of 1978, when I was a doctoral student at the University of
Missouri. What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about
individual differ ences in need for personal control led to a
personality scale, a few pub lications, some additional questions,
and additional research. For reasons I no longer recall, I named
this personality trait desire for control. One study led to
another, and questions by students and colleagues often spurred me
to apply desire for control to new areas and new questions. At the
same time, researchers around the globe began using the scale and
sending me reprints of articles and copies of papers describing
work they had done on desire for contro . In the past decade or so,
I have talked or corresponded with dozens of students who have used
the scale in their doctoral dissertation and master's thesis
research. I have heard of or seen translations of the Desirability
of Control Scale into German, Polish, Japanese, and French. There
is also a children's version of the scale. I estirnate that there
have now been more than a hundred studies conducted on desire for
contro ."
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