01495nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653002400118653001800142653001100160100002500171700001600196700001400212700001300226700001200239245009900251300001000350490000600360520087100366022001401237020001401251       1998                            d  c01/1998bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10apersonal competence10aTest Validity10aStress1 aJ. Fernández Castro1 aMª Alvarez1 aT. Blasco1 aE. Doval1 aA. Sanz00aValidation of the Wallston s Personal Competence Scale and its implication for stress research  a31-410 v43 aStudied the validitiy of the Spanish version of the Personal Competence Scale (K. E. Wallston, 1992). Human Ss: 179 normal male and female Spanish adults (mean age 20.4 yrs) (university students). Data on sociodemographic variables, personal competence, efficacy, locus of control, and psychological symptoms were obtained by questionnaire. The results were evaluated according to sex; scores on personal competency, inefficacy, locus of control, symptom severity, and positive and negative symptoms scales; and symptoms of anxiety, depression, hostility, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive–compulsive disorder, paranoid ideation, phobic anxiety, psychosis, and somatization. Tests used: The Locus of Control Scale (J. B. Rotter, 1975), the SCL-90—R, and the perfectionism and inefficacy subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory. Statistical tests were used.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437