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Social Sciences - Psychology / Pedagogy | | German term or phrase: Kontrollorientierung | A text about relative achievement of boys and girls in secondary school context; girls supposedly have "eine geringere Kontrollorientierung" and are more likely to attribute success to good luck and failure to their own shortcomings, rather than thinking that success is their own achievement.
I have provisionally written that "girls have a lower tolerance threshold for self-appraisal" but would be interested to hear whether there is a recognised psychological term for this aspect of self-criticism. |
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| | English translation:low internal locus of control | Explanation:
That's the meaning. But I don't know how to put it in English with "gering".
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Individuals with a high internal locus of control believe that events result primarily from their own behavior and actions. Those with a low internal locus of control believe that powerful others, fate, or chance primarily determine events.
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Note added at 1 ora (2011-01-24 17:39:45 GMT)
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I've found the way :-) Don't consider the first sentence
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Note added at 1 ora (2011-01-24 17:42:23 GMT)
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I hadn't read it all.... my answer is wrong in this case, sorry.... |
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 Danila Moro
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Local time: 18:35
| Grading comment This is certainly the technical term, though I actually stuck with my original formulation. Readership of this report is non-specialist.
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49 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 are less focused on control
Explanation:
This is about control in the sense of beliefs about whether you can influence things that happen (e.g. your success) or whether it is outside your control. ("Locus of control" refers to where you see control as being located - whether it is internal (inside yourself) or external (outside yourself).
Have a look at the paper "Bindungsstile und Kontollorientierung bei deutschen und ugandischen Jugendlichen", which has a lot to say about the psychological concept of control and Kontrollorientierung
http://www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/kops/volltexte/2004/1417/pdf/d...
Your writer may be saying that girls have less belief in their ability to control outcomes, or may just be saying that girls are less focused on the concept of control generally.
Another reference on the subject:-
This study examined the relationship of primary and secondary control beliefs to attitudes about seeking professional psychological help. A sample of 164 university students (68.3% women, mean age 24.96 years, SD=5.1) in Singapore completed the Primary-Secondary Control Scale and the Attitudes toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale. Secondary control, defined as a belief of changing oneself to adapt to reality, was related to more positive attitudes toward seeking professional help. Primary control, defined as a belief of influencing existing realities as a mean of coping, was not related to attitudes toward help-seeking.
The dominant theories of psychological control focus on the concept of primary control: the belief that people cope by attempting to directly influence or manage existing situations. Rotter's (1966) locus of control theory suggests that individuals can either be internal or external in their perceptions of control. People classified as "internal" perceive that they can influence or control their situations; whereas individuals classified as "external" believe that they have little or no control over their situations. It appears that internal locus of control is generally desirable and has many positive implications. For example, individuals with higher internal (primary) locus of control beliefs are generally more helpful (e.g., Clark, 1991); perceive more social support (VanderZee, Buunk & Sanderman, 1997), cope better in stressful situations (e.g., Band, 1990); get better school grades (e.g., Tangney, Baumeister & Boone, 2004) and have higher job-appraisal ratings (Patten, 2005).
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-159922578.html
| Armorel Young
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