The Internal-External Control of Reinforcement scale and the Personal Orientation Inventory were administered to 3 groups of college students who were differentially interested in the technique of transcendental meditation and to a fourth unselected baserate group. Level of interest in meditation was not related either to perceived locus of control or to personal adjustment.
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