A guide to constructs of control.

Social Foundations of Thought and Action : A Social Cognitive Theory

1986 • 40,300 citations

Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

1977 • 31,678 citations

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

1988 • 15,881 citations

Work and motivation

1964 • 9,479 citations

A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality.

1988 • 8,356 citations

Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.

1988 • 7,315 citations

Perceived Self-Efficacy in Cognitive Development and Functioning

1993 • 7,184 citations

An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion.

1985 • 6,805 citations

Human agency in social cognitive theory.

1989 • 6,789 citations

Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation.

1978 • 6,706 citations

Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

1975 • 6,201 citations

A Theory of Psychological Reactance

1968 • 5,014 citations

Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence.

1963 • 4,784 citations

Health, stress and coping

1990 • 3,678 citations

The illusion of control.

1975 • 3,645 citations

The Perceived Competence Scale for Children

1982 • 3,540 citations

Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation

1990 • 3,420 citations

Perceived locus of causality and internalization: Examining reasons for acting in two domains.

1989 • 3,007 citations

Procedural Justice: A Psychological Analysis

1975 • 2,987 citations

Progress in experimental personality research

1964 • 2,327 citations

Control and information in the intrapersonal sphere: An extension of cognitive evaluation theory.

1982 • 2,297 citations

Childhood traumas: an outline and overview

1991 • 2,121 citations

Personal control and stress and coping processes: A theoretical analysis.

1984 • 2,073 citations

Changing the world and changing the self: A two-process model of perceived control.

1982 • 1,997 citations

Life-Span Development and Behavior

1984 • 1,840 citations

Locus of control: Current trends in theory and research

1976 • 1,784 citations

Some problems and misconceptions related to the construct of internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1975 • 1,731 citations

Approach, avoidance, and coping with stress.

1986 • 1,678 citations

A life-span theory of control.

1995 • 1,669 citations

Effectance Motivation Reconsidered Toward a Developmental Model

1978 • 1,580 citations

Competence, autonomy, and relatedness: A motivational analysis of self-system processes.

1991 • 1,549 citations

Personal control over aversive stimuli and its relationship to stress.

1973 • 1,511 citations

Successful aging: Perspectives from the behavioral sciences

1990 • 1,408 citations

Socialization, personality, and social development

1983 • 1,386 citations

Infant-mother attachment.

1979 • 1,355 citations

Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?

1979 • 1,340 citations

The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,257 citations

Thought contents and cognitive functioning in motivational versus volitional states of mind

1987 • 1,181 citations

DIFFERENTIATING AMONG INTERNALITY, POWERFUL OTHERS, AND CHANCE

1981 • 1,053 citations

Will it hurt less if I can control it? A complex answer to a simple question.

1981 • 1,049 citations

Motivation and action

1991 • 969 citations

CHILDREN'S BELIEFS IN THEIR OWN CONTROL OF REINFORCEMENTS IN INTEUECTUAL-ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SITUATIONS

1965 • 955 citations

Human Helplessness: Theory and Applications

1980 • 881 citations

Models of helping and coping.

1982 • 875 citations

Tenacious goal pursuit and flexible goal adjustment: Explication and age-related analysis of assimilative and accommodative strategies of coping.

1990 • 852 citations

The Power Motive.

1974 • 822 citations

What it takes to do well in school and whether I've got it: A process model of perceived control and children's engagement and achievement in school.

1990 • 802 citations

Research with the Locus of Control Construct

1981 • 788 citations

Positive illusions: creative self-deception and the healthy mind

1990 • 786 citations

The desirability of control

1979 • 769 citations

Responses to Uncontrollable Outcomes: An Integration of Reactance Theory and the Learned Helplessness Model

1975 • 744 citations

Expectations and Actions

2021 • 690 citations

The Causal Dimension Scale: A measure of how individuals perceive causes.

1982 • 652 citations

Experimental Social Psychology

1934 • 621 citations

Assessment of covariation by humans and animals: The joint influence of prior expectations and current situational information.

1984 • 603 citations

Stress, personal control and health.

1989 • 599 citations

Self-theories and goals: their role in motivation, personality, and development.

1990 • 531 citations

Symbolic Action Theory and Cultural Psychology

1991 • 517 citations

Volitional aspects of achievement motivation and learned helplessness: toward a comprehensive theory of action control.

1984 • 495 citations

Do positive illusions foster mental health? An examination of the Taylor and Brown formulation.

1994 • 468 citations

The psychology of control and aging

1986 • 457 citations

Perceived control, motivation, and coping

1996 • 451 citations

Controllability and human stress: Method, evidence and theory

1979 • 422 citations

Human Ethology: Claims and Limits of a New Discipline.

1982 • 418 citations

Motivational and functional helplessness: The moderating effect of state versus action orientation.

1981 • 412 citations

Hocus-pocus, the focus isn't strictly on locus: Rotter's social learning theory modified for health

1992 • 412 citations

Negative reactions to increases in perceived personal control.

1989 • 401 citations

Influence of voice on satisfaction with leaders: Exploring the meaning of process control.

1985 • 398 citations

Achievement motivation and its constructs: A cognitive model

1977 • 375 citations

Depression and mental control: The resurgence of unwanted negative thoughts.

1988 • 359 citations

A New Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control

1985 • 358 citations

The function of the illusions of control and freedom.

1973 • 351 citations

Attributional retraining: A review.

1985 • 345 citations

Control, means-ends, and agency beliefs: A new conceptualization and its measurement during childhood.

1988 • 342 citations

Appraisals of control and predictability in adapting to a chronic disease.

1987 • 329 citations

Choice and perceived control

1979 • 325 citations

Origins of the infant's social responsiveness

1979 • 324 citations

What motivates children's behavior and emotion? Joint effects of perceived control and autonomy in the academic domain.

1993 • 320 citations

Perceived Control and Coping with Stress: A Developmental Perspective

1991 • 302 citations

Early behavior: Comparative and developmental approaches

1975 • 294 citations

Maintaining perceptions of control: Finding perceived control in low-control circumstances.

1993 • 293 citations

Locus of control in aging research: A case for multidimensional and domain-specific assessment.

1986 • 289 citations

Perceptions of Control in Vulnerable Populations

1991 • 289 citations

The multidimensional-multiattributional causality scale: The development of a goal specific locus of control scale.

1979 • 274 citations

Coping During Childhood and Adolescence: A Motivational Perspective

2019 • 270 citations

Cognitive Self-efficacy in Relation to Personal Mastery and Goal Setting across the Life Span

1993 • 251 citations

Personal and Ideological Aspects of Internal and External Control

1978 • 234 citations

Internal€xternal control expectancies: From contingency to creativity.

1989 • 228 citations

Self‐Generated Feelings of Control and Adjustment to Physical Illness

1991 • 217 citations

Competence, Contingency, and the Development of Perceived Control

1982 • 210 citations

Adaptive Resources of the Aging Self: Outlines of an Emergent Perspective

1993 • 205 citations

Desire for Control: Personality, Social and Clinical Perspectives

1992 • 176 citations

Perceived parental antecedents of internal powerful others, and chance locus of control orientations.

1973 • 123 citations

Engaged and disaffected action: The conceptualization and measurement of motivation in the academic domain.

1992 • 115 citations

Health locus of control and depression in end-stage renal disease.

1991 • 115 citations

Beyond locus of control: Attribution of responsibility for positive and negative outcomes

1984 • 102 citations

Health Locus of Control and Chronic Disease: An External Orientation May Be Advantageous

1984 • 102 citations

Self Directedness

2013 • 100 citations

Control By Any Other Name: Definitions, Concepts, and Processes

2013 • 100 citations

Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives

1992 • 95 citations

Primary versus secondary and central versus consequence-related control in HIV-positive men.

1994 • 95 citations

PARTICIPATORY CONTROL AND THE CHRONIC-ILLNESS ADJUSTMENT PROCESS

1984 • 76 citations

Perspectives on behavior therapy in the eighties

1983 • 73 citations

Planning and Control Processes Across the Life Span: An Overview

1993 • 72 citations

Can I control it? The pursuit of veridical answers across the life-span

1983 • 68 citations

Selection of Causal Rules

1986 • 59 citations

Action, control judgments, and the structure of control experience.

1985 • 52 citations

Age Differences in the Dimensions of Perceived Control during Middle Childhood: Implications for Developmental Conceptualizations and Research

1990 • 49 citations

Sense of Control, Quality of Life, and Frail Older People

1991 • 39 citations

EXPECTANCIES FOR CONTROLLABILITY, PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTIONS, AND BEHAVIOR

1981 • 30 citations

Control from the actor's perspective.

1992 • 17 citations

Thesaurus of psychological index terms, 7th ed.

1994 • 8 citations

An Interaction-Transaction Perspective on the Perception of Control within Select Life Situations

1979 • 3 citations

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1955 • 0 citations