Description
To what do you attribute your success? To what do you attribute your failures?
People and their attitudes can be classified in so many ways. One of the ways proven by research as a determiner of what they are more likely to do or less likely to do (for example put in their best or not in any task given to them) is the way they attribute successes, failures, and other events that happen to them.
Those who tend to attribute successes, failures, or events that happen to them to outside factors are called Externals and those who attribute the same to factors internal to them are called Internals.
Locus of control is the perceived source of control over our behavior. As an example, college students with a strong internal locus of control believe that their grades are determined by their abilities and efforts. In contrast, college students with a strong external locus of control believe that their grades are the result of good or bad luck, the teacher’s mood, or God’s will.
The development of locus of control is associated with family style and resources, cultural stability, and experiences with effort leading to rewards.
This is a 54 item scale that measures the extent to which an individual’s thoughts, opinions, beliefs are external oriented or internal oriented.
