Do you control your destiny or are you controlled by it? This test assesses your locus of control orientation and your attribution style. "A locus of control orientation is a belief about whether the ...

Do you believe you have agency in your life? If you think that most of what happens in your life is out of your hands, you could be said to have an external locus of control. If you believe you have ...

A test of the construct validity of the Health Locus of Control (HLC) scale is presented within the largerframework of Rotter's social learning theory. Self-reported compliance behavior was predicted ...

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Some people have a knack for writing, while others will never write well no matter how hard they try. That is an example of a question that will ...

American psychologist Julian Rotter developed the concept of "locus of control" in the 1950s, describing it as "the degree to which a person perceives an outcome as being contingent on their own ...

In the world of marketing, there are a lot of companies with incredible strategies, brilliant vision and spectacular technology. But without the best people, it is difficult to be successful. For most ...

Some people have a knack for writing, while others will never write well no matter how hard they try. That is an example of a question that will be part of a battery that Rose-Hulman Institute of ...

Part One of this series quoted Wikipedia’s definition: “Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them… Individuals with a high ...