Psychological concomitants of satisfactory employment and unemployment in young people.
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M Tiggemann
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Unemployment, drug use, and health in late adolescence.
In order to study the health correlates of unemployment, young urban South Australians, of average age 19.6 years and with 10.5% unemployed, were asked to rate their health and report number of doctor visits of the preceding month. Information about financial state, work satisfaction, and drug use was also collected. The satisfied employed rated their health somewhat more favourably than did either the dissatisfied employed or the unemployed, but changes in work situation over the next year were not related to changes in health. Alcohol use differed according to work situation for females but not males; cigarette-smoking, which did not vary with work situation, was associated with poorer health.
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Dimensionality and reliability of the Rotter I-E locus of control scale.
The dimensionality and reliability of Rotter's internal-external control scale was examined using Australian students. The results imply that the scale is not additive but multidimensional. Two distinct largely independent factors relating to personal and political control beliefs were extracted. General control concerns the belief that a person has mastery over his own life while political control includes items which measure the extent to which an individual is capable. of having an influence on political institutions or the course of world affairs. On retesting, 8 of the 9 General Control items loaded on the same first factor. All 5 of the Political Control items loaded on the second factor. Test-retest reliability of the I-E scale was .61. These results suggest that the Rotter Scale itself, and its two factor structure, are stable over a considerable period of time.
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Reaction time in retarded and nonretarded young adults: sequential effects and response organization.
Two types of sequential effects can occur in 2-choice reaction-time (RT) tasks. In an alternation effect, the RT for a response that differs from the previous response is faster than that for a response that is the same. In a repetition effect, the opposite is the case; i.e., the RT for a response that is the same as the previous response is faster than that for a different response. These effects were investigated in a comparison of retarded and nonretarded subjects in a 2-choice RT task. There were three conditions that differed in the degree of response organization required. For the retarded subjects, both a significant increase in the overall mean RT and a change from alternation to repetition effects were found with increasing degree of response organization. Neither result was found for the nonretarded subjects. For both groups there was a tendency for alternation effects to decrease and repetition effects to increase witwh decreasing intelligence. Overall, sequential effects were found to correlate more consistently than mean RT with both degree of response organization and intelligence.
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