Abstract
Psychologists and social workers in geographically decentralized and sometimes isolated settings must often work autonomously and make independent decisions. It was predicted that staff who choose to work in these settings would be more internally directed and more dogmatic than staff who worked in a centralized office. Decentralized staff were also hypothesized to want less control by others and less social inclusion. On Rotter's (1966) Internal-External Scale, Rokeach's (1959) Dogmatism Scale and Shurz's FIRO-B measures for 29 social workers and psychologists there were differences on the FIRO-B but not in internality or dogmatism. The results are discussed in terms of the sample's characteristics and the implications for the decentralization of counselling services.
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