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desire for control: a standalone construct

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Personality psychology

a stable individual difference in how strongly people want to be in control of the events in their lives.

In personality psychology, desire for control refers to a stable individual difference in how strongly people want to be in control of the events in their lives. This meaning comes from Burger (1979) in Motivation and Emotion.[1]

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control4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs emotion4 names · 4 citationsjangle · one word, rival theories of what it is motivation6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Burger, J. M., & Cooper, H. M. (1979). The desirability of control. Motivation and Emotion, 3(4), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00994052

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