PART 1
Health Locus of Control
PART 2
CONCLUSIONS
METHODS
DISCUSSION
APPENDIXES
Methods
Participants
The sample was one of convenience comprised of 166 students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Six subjects were removed from the final analysis because they did not complete the survey, leaving 160. The majority of subjects received extra credit toward psychology classes for participating. The final sample included 28 (18%) males and 132 (83%) females. This disproportionate distribution reflects the ratio of males to females enrolled in the psychology major and in psychology classes. Subjects fell into the following age groups: 3 (2%) were younger than eighteen, 26 (16%) were eighteen, 34 (21%) were nineteen, 39 (24%) were twenty, 29 (18%) were twenty one, and 29 (18%) were older than twenty one. Most subjects considered themselves to be middle class, with only 4% falling into the lower or upper class category: 5 (3%) lower class, 17 (11%) lower middle class, 92 (58%) middle class, 44 (28%) upper middle class, and 2 (1%) upper class. Subjects identified themselves according to the following racial/ ethnic designations, with an overwhelming majority as Caucasian/ European American: 9 (6%) as African/African Americans, 14 (9%) as Asian/Asian Americans, 116 (73%) as Caucasian/ European Americans, 11 (7%) as Hispanic/ Hispanic Americans, 0 as Native Americans, and 10 (6%) as other. Most subjects fell into the Integrated mode of acculturation: 33 (21%) Assimilated, 102 (64%) Integrated, 21 (13%) Separated, and 4 (3%) Marginalized.
