Effect of social class on personal control beliefs.
Objective: This research investigated the effect of social class on personal control beliefs. Background: Differences in personal control beliefs serve as a central theoretical explanation for social class differences in cognition, emotion, and behavior. However, prior empirical research has not yet...
| Published in: | Journal of Personality Vol. 92; no. 4; pp. 1086 - 1100 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2024
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