The findings of this study showed that the highest percentage of studied staff nurses 57. This distinction led the researchers to two study lines. A positive psychology appauthored by russ hill teaching in. This was the basis of the locusofcontrol scale proposed by rotter in 1966, although it. In 1966 he published an article in psychological monographs which summarized over a decade of research by rotter and his students, much of it previously unpublished. This book explains loc research, until now mainly confined to academic circles, in terms easily understandable to the average person. Locus award winners, 2016 scifi award nominees, 2017 scifi award nominees, 2014 scifi award nominees, 2010 locus recommended reading list. E book or pdf edited book email encyclopedia article govt.
Developed as a social theory by rotter 1966, events in. Locus of control in 1966, rotter published his famous ie scale in the journal psychological monographs, to assess internal and external locus of control. Locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they, as opposed to external forces. Locus of control psychology bibliographies cite this. The concept was developed originally julian rotter in the. Locus of control refers to an individuals perception about the underlying. Having an external locus of control implies that an individual with such a locus of control believes the outcome of his life. Julian rotter 1966 proposed the concept of locus of control, another cognitive factor that affects learning and personality development. A databank of 9140 responses to the rotter 1966 locus of control scale was analyzed, using multidimensional scaling techniques. Locus of control and psychological wellbeing encompass.
Internalexternal locus of control scale springerlink. Locus of control is the extent you feel in control of the events that influence your life. Rotter 1966 distinguished between beliefs in internal. The more anxious or depressed a person is, the more external their locus of control tends to be and a greater external locus of control is associated with a greater vulnerability to physical illness. These are the sources and citations used to research locus of control. Rotters 1966 internalexternal scale tests locus of control.
During the half century since rotter published his article others have offered a variety of definitions and methods for measuring the locus of control construct. This is the second study we will be looking at from the theories of health belief section of healthy living, as part of your ocr a2 health and clinical psychology course. Locus of control has sustained itself as a concept for psychological study for a half century nowicki and duke, 2016. Respondents were employees in business organizations in. Pdf the rotter locus of control scale in 43 countries. Basically, the locus of control refers to whether a person believes they control their own destiny, or outside forces are in control for a given situation. In 1966, rotter published a scale designed to measure and assess. This scale has been widely used in the psychology of personality, although its use of a twoalternative forced choice technique has made it subject to criticism. If you use the add to want list tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. We have people that think they control everything, others that think they are controlled by the. Locus of control rotter 1966 refers to an individuals beliefs about the extent of control that they have over things that happen to them. The internalexternal locus of control scale rotter 1966, which is a 29item forcedchoice test including six filler items intended to make the purpose of the test somewhat more ambiguous, is the most widely used and cited measurement of locus of control loc.
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