Internal-external control and social-political activism: A test of the dimensionality of Rotter's internal-external scale.

Abstract

This study reexamined the issue of the usefulness of the internal-external concept in understanding commitment to social-political action and evaluated the empirical intaotness of Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) scale.The Ss, 166 college students, more than one third of whom were members of campus socialpolitical action groups, completed several personality inventories including the Rotter I-E measure and Kerpelman's Political Activity scale.Three scores were derived from the I-E instrument, one based on responses to all 23 items.The other two scores were based, respectively, on responses to the political or world events stems and to the nonpolitical stems identified by Mirels as forming independent item domains.The main findings were that (a) the two item clusters from the I-E scale were uncorrelated; and (&) political commitment was predicted by scores on the political I-E items (p < .01),but not by scores on the nonpolitical items or on all the items.

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