Correlations between the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire and several measures of academic achievement did not support the hypothesis that this scale measures locus of control attitudes in intellectual-academic achievement situations. Support was obtained for the hypothesis that a measure of more generalized locus of control attitudes was related to academic achievement.
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