(n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
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Rotter
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(1) The new scale appears to be a more sensitive measure of locus of control than Rotter's scale.
(2) As a part of the evaluation, they completed Rotter's Locus of Control (LOC) form in the follicular phase and premenstrually.
(3) Alcoholics were assigned to four groups based upon differential scores on Rotter's Locus of Control and Tiffany's Experienced Control Scales.
(4) The presence of lymph nodes between the pectoralis major and minor muscles (Rotter's nodes) has been noted in the anatomic and surgical literature.
(5) Radical mastectomy (Rotter-Halsted) lowered the local and regional recurrence rate from 60% to 6%.
(6) No differences were found with the use of the Internal-External Scale (Rotter, 1966).
(7) The contribution of genes within the major histocompatibility complex to rheumatoid arthritis has been calculated (Rotter & Landaw 1984).
(8) Each participant completed a questionnaire containing a Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence, and a scale measuring family pattern of unwed parenthood.
(9) The Rotter I-E scale was administered to college juniors in education under five different instructional sets.
(10) Profile surveys, completed Rotter I-E scales, and questionnaires on past relapse behavior were collected from 108 New Jersey compulsive gamblers who attended Gamblers Anonymous, and an attempt was made, based on the findings, to predict incidence of compulsive gamblers' relapse.
(11) Scores on Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale and Beck Depression Scale correlated negatively for 40 high school students.
(12) Independently, both husbands and wives completed a Byrne's Revised Repression-Sensitization scale, Rotter's I-E scale, and Attitude Toward Sex scale, a Reaction to the Temperature-Rhythm Method scale, and a sexual behavior inventory.
(13) The present study examined Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) locus of control (LOC) concept in relation to life satisfaction and death anxiety in an aged population.
(14) The super-radical Rotter-Halstedt operation of breast cancer is past history, and also the modified radical mastectomy (Patey) is performed in fewer cases.
(15) Eighty college students (36 male and 44 female) were classified as having relatively high internal or external locus of control beliefs using Rotter's Internal-External Scale.
(16) Rotter's I-E Scale was administered to 19 moderately obese adolescent girls and 10 girls who were children of alcoholics in outpatient treatment.
(17) Seventy-seven male college students completed the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank and the Beck Depression Inventory and subsequently received success or failure feedback on tasks for which they provided expectancy and minimal goal statements.
(18) Other self report measures obtained were the Premenstrual Assessment Form, Rotter's Internal External Locus of Control, the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
(19) Questionnaires were administered to assess patients' self-reports of locus of control (Rotter's I-E scale) and their perceptions of their mothers' child rearing attitudes (Schaefer's CRPBI).
(20) Participants were 24 unwed adolescent fathers and 27 unwed adolescent nonfathers, aged 15-19 years who visited 3 Centers for Mothers and Children in Washington, D.C. Each participant completed a questionnaire containing a Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence, and a scale measuring family pattern of unwed parenthood.