Jerry M Burger

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Desire for Control: Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992, 29 April 2013

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Part of Series
The Springer Social Clinical Psychology
Part of Series
Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Print Length
196 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
29 Apr 2013
ISBN-10
1475799861
ISBN-13
9781475799866

Description

This book is a cumulation of a research program that began in the sum- mer of 1978, when I was a doctoral student at the University of Missouri. What started as a graduate student' s curiosity about individual differ- ences in need for personal control led to a personality scale, a few pub- lications, some additional questions, and additional research. For reasons I no longer recall, I named this personality trait desire for control. One study led to another, and questions by students and colleagues often spurred me to apply desire for control to new areas and new questions. At the same time, researchers around the globe began using the scale and sending me reprints of articles and copies of papers describing work they had done on desire for contro!. In the past decade or so, I have talked or corresponded with dozens of students who have used the scale in their doctoral dissertation and master's thesis research. I have heard of or seen translations of the Desirability of Control Scale into German, Polish, Japanese, and French. There is also a children's version of the scale. I estirnate that there have now been more than a hundred studies conducted on desire for contro!.

Product Details

Author:
Jerry M Burger
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1992
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
29 April 2013
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.14 cm
ISBN-10:
1475799861
ISBN-13:
9781475799866
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
196
Publisher:
Weight:
303.91 gm

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