Date of Award:
5-1974
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Applied Sciences, Technology, and Education
Department name when degree awarded
Home Economics and Consumer Education
Committee Chair(s)
Jane Lott
Committee
Jane Lott
Committee
Alison Thorne
Committee
David Musick
Abstract
A comparison of perception of locus of control and identification of goals between delinquent and non-delinquent juvenile females was conducted.
The delinquent sample consisted of 20 female students at the Idaho State Youth Training Center. The non-delinquent sample consisted of 20 female students from two Idaho Public Secondary schools. The non-delinquent subjects were paired with the delinquent subjects as closely as possible according to age, religion, education, size and composition of family, and size of home town.
The instruments used were: (l) a background questionnaire, (2) a goal identification questionnaire, and (3) Rotter's I-E scale.
The difference between the mean I-E score of the delinquent subjects and the non-delinquent subjects was not significant. The non delinquent subjects identified significantly more goals, both long-term and short-term, than the delinquent subjects, Both samples identified goals in all five categories, but the non-delinquent subjects identified significantly more goals in the paid employment, individually oriented, and interpersonally oriented categories. The inverse correlation between the number of goals identified and the subjects' I-E score was not significant.
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Recommended Citation
Bates, Geraldine, "Goals and Locus of Control of Female Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Juveniles" (1974). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2281.
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