SEX ROLE ORIENTATION AND LOCUS OF CONTROL IN SELECTED NURSING STUDENTS: A STUDY OF SOCIALIZATION.
Contributors: University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Women's Studies.
Description: The purpose of this study of socialization was to explore the way in which female nursing students viewed themselves and the world around them. An author constructed demographic survey, the Brogan and Kutner Sex Role Orientation Scale (S.R.O.) and the Levinson Internal, Powerful Others and Chance Scale (I,P,C) were administered.

The subjects included 88 freshman students and 102 senior students who were generic students or those who had continuous education from high school into college which would culminate in a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Also included were 38 Registered Nurse students who previously graduated from a two or three year nursing program and who returned to college, after work interludes of varying lengths, to obtain their baccalaureate degree.

All data were analyzed by computer, using analysis of variance from the Statistical Package For The Social Sciences. A .05 probability determined significance.

With the I,P,C Scale, the senior students were more internal than freshmen, while R.N. students were more internal than the generic students. Both R.N. and generic students who were more involved with religious practices, were predicted to be more internal. While a trend toward internality was present, it was not significant.

With the S.R.O. Scale, seniors showed a trend toward being more nontraditional than freshmen, but the tests did not reach significance. R.N. students were more nontraditional than generic students. Both R.N. students and generic students with a work interlude in their years of education were more nontraditional. Students with more religious practices were more traditional. Students whose mother worked outside the home were nontraditional.

It was concluded that there were significant differences in the students studied which related to age, life experience and home influence.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 1109.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 1984.

School code: 0262.