Bl. Kennedy et al., ASSESSMENT OF LOCUS OF CONTROL IN PATIENTS WITH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE-DISORDERS, Journal of clinical psychology, 54(4), 1998, pp. 509-515
We studied Levenson's Internal (I). Powerful Others (P), and Chance (C
) locus of control scales in 193 patients with six DSM-III-R diagnoses
: Major Depression (MD). Panic Disorder(PD), Generalized Anxiety Disor
der (GAD). Social Phobia (SP). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). an
d Mixed Anxiety Depressive Disorder (MAD). Compared to the comparison
groups (CG), we found specific patterns for some of the diagnostic cat
egories. There were no significant differences between the I scale sco
res and of those in the different anxiety and depressive disorder grou
ps and the CG. But, patients with MD, SP, or MAD had significantly hig
her P scale scores than the CG. Patients with MD, PD, SP, and MAD had
higher C scale scores than the CG. The OCD patients had the lowest P a
nd C scale scores oi any of the groups and not significantly different
than the CG. The findings have some research and clinical implication
s. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.