119 undergraduate college students were administered the Rotter I-E Scale and the Motivation Sources Inventory Scores were compared for a group of 66 students who were wearing watches and 53 students who were not wearing watches. The former had higher scores on External locus of control and higher scores on a measure of Instrumental Motivation as anticipated.
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