LOCUS OF CONTROL AND PERSONALITY - ANALYS IS OF THE NEW METHOD CAMI, AND CHILDREN CROSS - CULTURAL COMPARISONS

Description and statistical verification of CAMI (Control, Agency, and Means-ends Beliefs) used in Czech sample (1217 children in age 7-14, coming froin 4 Prague schools) strives for concept validisation of the structures and vectors used. The second part of the study demonstrate s three data comparisons of Czech and German (once also East- and West German) children based on studies published until now. Differences (e specially remarkable in dimensions of Agency Beliefs vector) are hypot hetically interpreted with respect to political/ethnical background, a nd to the present educational and cultural environment of children in both samples. Probable impacts on motivational characteristics and sel f-concept specifics coming from short-term and/or long-term, tradition al life experiences, in the Czech children population are discussed.