Development Change of Perceived Control in Children

埼玉県越谷市The present study investigated developmental change of children's perceived control by crosssectional analysis. The data were captured in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1999 school years. 1202 elementary school children with upper grade and 959 junior high school students completed generalized perceived control for chlidren scale. Children's perceived control scores were found to be significantly different from elementary school children to junior high school children in each school year. Junior high school students had significantly less perceived control scores than elemenary school children. But there was not liner developmental trend that was one grade group to the next. The reasons for these results were discussed