Resolution of a developmental paradox: How can perceived internality increase, decrease, and remain the same across middle childhood?

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

1966 • 21,432 citations

Achievement motivation: Conceptions of ability, subjective experience, task choice, and performance.

1984 • 3,637 citations

The Child's Conception of the World

1971 • 2,594 citations

Locus of control: Current trends in theory and research

1976 • 1,784 citations

A locus of control scale for children.

1973 • 1,572 citations

The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children

1984 • 1,324 citations

The Child's Conception of Physical Causality

1932 • 1,198 citations

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

1965 • 955 citations

The Development of the Concepts of Effort and Ability, Perception of Academic Attainment, and the Understanding That Difficult Tasks Require More Ability

1978 • 881 citations

The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children

1975 • 559 citations

The psychology of control and aging

1986 • 457 citations

A New Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control

1985 • 358 citations

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

1988 • 342 citations

Conceptualization of success and failure in mentally retarded and normal children1

1961 • 325 citations

Competence, Contingency, and the Development of Perceived Control

1982 • 210 citations

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

1973 • 123 citations

Children's Beliefs about Control, Means-ends, and Agency: Developmental Differences during Middle Childhood

1988 • 70 citations

Developmental change in perceived control: Recognizing noncontingency in the laboratory and perceiving it in the world.

1980 • 55 citations

Differentiation of the concepts of luck and skill.

1985 • 48 citations

Illusory contingency in children at the state fair.

1981 • 46 citations

Control beliefs in an action perspective.

1984 • 28 citations

Occupational careers, work and control.

1986 • 12 citations