The effect of the general I-E locus of control conviction on remembering and planning one's life: Individual differences in life event reports of Georgian respondents

81 subjects from Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia; 37 men, 44 women) with an ag e range from 27 to 35 years were asked to report past and future life event s. Taking into account I-E control convictions, the basic hypothesis was th at internals and externals would differ in a number of life event variables . Tests were performed in regard to the number of events reported, the time span covered by the reports, and evaluation of the life events. These test s supported the basic hypothesis to a great extent An explorative data anal ysis technique was applied to describe individual differences in the usage of different event categories. Most of the results could be interpreted wit hin the existing theoretical frame of reference far I-E control convictions . Results of the explorative part of the study are useful for further hypot hesis generation and cross-validation attempts.