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 psychology, it’s almost universally accepted that we want people to have an internal locus of control. The alternative? An external locus of control. Source: Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash ...
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 ...