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Summary
Relationships were predicted between the theme of voluntary control (VC) and actual reality events which precipitate distress, and between VC and interpretations of distressing events. A coding system for VC was applied to the TAT stories of 89 males and 96 females. 20 males and 20 females who scored high on VC and 20 males and 20 females who scored low on VC described three distressing experiences. As predicted, high VC Ss compared with low VC Ss tended to be particularly distressed by actual failures, and low VC Ss tended to be distressed by actual object losses. The predicted relationship between VC and interpretations of distressing events was not significant.