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Article: Parental enabling attitudes and locus of control of at-risk and honors students.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Concerns about at-risk youth and the national dropout rate have existed for decades. Parents, teachers, and researchers have sought greater understanding of the causes of academic underachievement in hopes of identifying an effective course of prevention. One fruitful area of research has been locus of control (Rotter, 1966, 1973), which has been found to be a significantly better predictor of grades than standardized achievement test scores (Stipek & Weisz, 1981).
The advantages of an internal locus of control have been well established (Lefcourt, 1982; Oswald, Walker, Krajewski, & Reilly, 1994; Parrott & Strongman, 1984; Rawson, 1992; Weisz, 1986). Considerable ...