The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children (N- SLOCSC) is a test of perception of internal vs. external control of reinforcement that was developed for use with children and youth. As part of a larger study, the scale was factor analyzed and then cross-validated with two similar samples of high school students. Al though the authors assume their scale to be unidimensional, no one strong dimension emerged from these analyses. Only 8 of the 21 items used in this study were correlated similarly on the two factors for both samples. The two resultant dimensions appeared to mea sure Social Control (six items) and Self Control (two items).
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