Expectancy for Locus of Control of Reinforcement and Perception of Orderliness

Abstract

In order to determine the generality of the conception of causality measured by Rotter's I-E scale, it was administered individually to 48 Ss with four experimental tasks designed to measure their tendency to perceive orderliness between nonpersonal events. The I-E scale did not correlate with any of the experimental measures but these measures correlated consistently and significantly with each other. This was interpreted to mean that conceptions of causality vary independently from one domain of events to another and that at least two such domains may be said to exist. The theoretical and research implications of these findings were discussed.