A conceptualization of the illusion of control phenomenon as a dispositional variable describing "illusory control proneness" was proposed. One hundred and thirty-nine undergraduate students constituted the sample of the study. The stability of illusion of control across responses, situations, and time was evaluated by assessing the consistency of subjects' perceptions of control over uncontrollable situations across several measures, tasks, and sessions. A games-of-chance paradigm in which subjects participated in illusion of control and neutral conditions of lottery, roulette, and die roll tasks was employed. Subjects completed three dependent measures (i.e., judgment of control, estimate of performance with practice, and prediction of success), and attended two similar experimental sessions. / As hypothesized, a MANOVA with repeated measures revealed that the illusion of control phenomenon was effectively produced with each of the dependent measures, in the three games-of-chance tasks, on both experimental sessions. As predicted, correlational analyses revealed significant positive relationships among the dependent measures, among the games-of-chance tasks, and between the experimental sessions. It was hypothesized that a confirmatory factor analysis would reveal one common factor representing illusory control proneness. While this general model was not supported, an alternative "multitrait-multimethod" model fit the data well, suggesting that illusion of control is better conceptualized as a phenomenon that is essentially specific to given measures and tasks. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-11, Section: B, page: 6090. / Major Professor: Daniel R. Boroto. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76551 |
| Contributors | Munoz, Marisol., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 183 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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