Maternal Prenatal External Locus of Control and Reduced Mathematical and Science Abilities in Their Offspring: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

Maternal Prenatal External Locus of Control and Reduced Mathematical and Science Abilities in Their Offspring: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study

A personality scale that identifies individuals’ general attitude to what happens to them as largely a matter of luck or fate or of powerful others (externality) or whether they feel they can influence the consequences (internality) is known as locus of control (LOC). A continuous scale can distingu...

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Main Authors: Jean Golding, Steven Gregory, Genette Ellis, Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant, Yasmin Iles-Caven, Stephen Nowicki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ALSPAC
longitudinal cohort
maternal locus of control
numeracy
science
mathematics
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00194/full

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