Se investigaron, mediante un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, los efectos de la identidad social, la edad y los ingresos sobre el locus de control interno en habitantes del sur de Nuevo León, México. Como los ingresos no tuvieron ningún efecto estadísticamente significativo (β =.089, p>.05), se re-especificó el modelo, dejando sólo la identidad social y la edad. Estas sí tuvieron efectos estadísticamente significativos (β=.79, p <.05 y (β= -.19, p <.05, respectivamente), alcanzando a explicar un 60,00% de la varianza del locus de control interno gracias al modelo bifactorial. Se interpretaron los resultados en términos de la carencia de poder, para entender la relación negativa de la edad sobre el locus de control interno, y se acudió a las características de permeabilidad e impermeabilidad de la teoría de la identidad social para interpretar el efecto positivo de la identidad social de un grupo de bajo estatus sobre el locus de control interno, variable entendida en muchas ocasiones como característica de personalidad. De los índices de bondad de ajuste, el modelo sólo cumplió con el criterio de la RMSEA (p <.05), el cual es uno de los indicadores específicos más efectivos.
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