LOCUS-OF-CONTROL AND PARTICIPATION IN CONTINUING NURSING EDUCATION.
Contributors: University of Oklahoma.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The relationships among locus of control; the degree of participation of registered nurses in formal and informal continuing nursing education; and age, basic nursing education, job responsibility and responsibility for payment of continuing education expenses were analyzed by one-way and two-way ANOVA and the Neuman-Keuls method with studentized range (SNK). Two hundred and eighty-two female registered nurses employed at least half-time in two hospitals and a rehabilitation institute completed the Levenson I, P, and C Scales and the Dolphin Registered Nurse Questionnaire. Nurses who participate in continuing nursing education were found to be significantly more internal than non-participants. Consistent with other studies indicating that internality increases with age, nurse participants age 30 and older were found to be more internally locused than younger nurses who assumed no responsibility for their learning experiences. Findings indicate that nurses' assessments of their own participation in informal learning may be inaccurate.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3671.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 1986.

School code: 0169.