Aspects of personal control in explaining inmates' adjustment to prison life

The study was aimed to test predictions derived from the models of inmate adjustment to prison based on the concept of personal control. The importance of particular aspects of personal control (objective, expected and perceived controllability) in explaining selected measures of adjustment was anal...

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Matična publikacija: 5th European Conference on Psychological Assessment: Book of Abstracts
Patras : Ellinika Grammata Publishers S. A., 1999
Glavni autori: Buško, Vesna (-), Penezić, Jelena (Author), Kulenović, Alija
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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