LOCUS OF CONTROL ORIENTATION AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY - A METAANALYSIS

Meta-analytic techniques were used to review studies of the relation b etween Levenson's locus of control scales and depressive symptomatolog y. Whereas other reviewers have used only zero-order correlations as e stimates of effect size, the present review included semipartial corre lations. After partialling out the shared variance of the chance and p owerful others scales, higher beliefs in a lack of internality were as sociated with higher levels of depressive symptomatology. A Iso, highe r scores on the chance and powerful others scales were uniquely associ ated with higher scores on measures of depressive symptomatology.