Locus of Control: Its Stability across Distinctly Different Subgroups of College Freshmen

A modified version of the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale is investigated. Utilizing four distinct subgroups ( ns = 101) of college freshmen, education and noneducation majors, from a Bible College and a State University, a discriminant structure for the locus of control statements was defined. Two statistically significant discriminant functions showed a very clear external orientation for all four groups. The construct locus of control was less bipolar than anticipated.