scholarly journals The factor structure, metrical properties, and convergent validity of the third edition (1999) of the locus of control inventory

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann M Schepers ◽  
Liezl Gropp ◽  
DJ Geldenhuys
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
External Control ◽  
First Year ◽  
Psychological Wellness ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Year University

The principal objective of the study was to examine the factor structure and metrical properties of the third edition (1999) of the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI). A corollary of the study was to examine the convergent validity of the instrument. After a thorough revision and extension of the scale to 88 items it was applied to a sample of 2091 first-year university students. Particular attention was paid to the shortcomings revealed in a study by de Bruin (2004). An iterative principal factor analysis of the scale was done. The three-factor-structure previously found was substantiated by the analysis. The obtained factors were interpreted as Autonomy, External Control and Internal Control. Highly acceptable reliabilities were obtained. As far as validity is concerned it was found that Internal Control and Autonomy are strongly related to Psychological Wellness and External Control negatively to Stress Management. The implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals The contruction and evaluation of an attention questionnaire

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann M Schepers
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Common ◽  
First Year University

The principal objective of the study was the construction and evaluation of an attention questionnaire. A corollary of the study was to determine the common factors between the Attention Questionnaire (AQ) and the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI). The AQ and the LCI (1999) were applied jointly to a sample of 1577 first-year university students. To start with the AQ was subjected to a principal factor analysis. It yielded three factors which were identified as Concentration Ability, Arousal and Distractibility. Three scales were formed which yielded reliabilities of 0,886, 0,757 and 0,863 respectively. Multiple battery factor analysis was used to establish the common factor structure of the two instruments. Autonomy and Internal Control were strongly related to Concentration Ability.

scholarly journals The construction of a normative scale of locus of control

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann M. Schepers
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
External Control ◽  
First Year ◽  
Cognitive Correlates ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
First Year University

The primary objective of the study was to construct a normative scale of locus of control for use with students and adults. A corollary of the study was to establish the personality, interest and cognitive correlates of locus of control. Conceptually the instrument is based on attribution theory and on social learning theory. The first edition of the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI) was applied to 356 first-year university students during 1994. A factor analysis of the 65 items of the inventory yielded three factors. The factors were interpreted as Autonomy, Internal Control and External Control. Three scales, corresponding to the three factors, were constructed, and yielded reliability coefficients of 0,80; 0,77 and 0,81 respectively. Following this the cognitive, interest and personality correlates of the LCI were determined. The implications of the findings are discussed. Opsomming Die hoofdoel van die studie was die konstruksie van ’n normatiewe skaal van lokus van beheer vir gebruik met studente en volwassenes. ’n Newe-doelwit van die studie was om die persoonlikheids-, belangstellings- en kognitiewe korrelate van lokus van beheer te bepaal. Konseptueel is die instrument op attribusieteorie en sosiale-leerteorie gebaseer. Die eerste-uitgawe van die Lokus van Beheervraelys (LvB) is op 356 eerstejaaruniversiteitstudente toegepas gedurende 1994. ’n Faktorontleding van die 65 items van die vraelys is gedoen en het drie faktore opgelewer. Die faktore is as Outonomie, Interne Beheer en Eksterne Beheer geïnterpreteer. Voorts is drie skale wat ooreenstem met die drie faktore, gekonstrueer en het betroubaarhede van 0,80; 0,77 en 0,81, onderskeidelik, opgelewer. Vervolgens is die kognitiewe, belangstellings- en persoonlikheidskorrelate van die LvB bepaal. Die implikasies van die bevindinge word bespreek.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Validity of the Risk Perception Survey for Developing Diabetes Scale in a Safety-Net Clinic Population of English and Spanish Speakers

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Catherine Rochefort ◽  
Austin S. Baldwin ◽  
Jasmin Tiro ◽  
Michael E. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Likelihood Estimation ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
External Control ◽  
Perception Survey

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the factor structure of the Risk Perception Survey for Developing Diabetes (RPS-DD) and test for factorial invariance by language (English, Spanish) and gender (males, females) in a clinically engaged, racially diverse, low-education population. Methods Adult patients seen in a safety-net health system (N = 641) answered an interviewer-administered survey via telephone in their preferred language (English: 42%, Spanish: 58%). Three constructs in the RPS-DD were assessed—personal control (2 items for internal control and 2 for external control), optimistic bias (2 items), and worry (2 items). Single and multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed using maximum-likelihood estimation to determine the factor structure and test for invariance. Results Contrary to previous psychometric analyses in white, educated populations, CFAs supported a 4-factor measurement model with internal and external control items loading onto separate factors. The 4-factor structure was equivalent between males and females. However, the structure varied by language, with the worry subscale items loading more strongly for English than Spanish speakers. Conclusions The RPS-DD can be used to investigate group differences across gender and language and to help understand if interventions have differential effects for subgroups at high risk for diabetes. Given the increasing prevalence of diabetes among Spanish speakers, researchers should continue to examine the psychometric properties of the RPS-DD, particularly the worry subscale, to improve its validity and clinical utility.

Internal-External Control, Achievement Orientation and Physical Attractiveness of College Students

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1205-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cash ◽  
Phyllis J. Begley
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
External Control ◽  
Achievement Orientation ◽  
Female College ◽  
Physically Attractive

The validity of the stereotype by which physically attractive persons are attributed greater internal control and greater success orientation than unattractive persons was studied among college students. For 32 male and 32 female college undergraduates, while attractiveness was unrelated to achievement orientation, attractive individuals were in fact more internal in their locus of control.

scholarly journals The Effect of Marital Locus of Control on Marital Adjustment of Couples

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Javnika Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Marital Adjustment ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
The Other ◽  
External Control ◽  
External Locus ◽  
Internal Locus ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
The Individual

Internal control refers to the perception of an event as contingent upon one’s own behavior, capacities or one’s relatively permanent characteristics. External control, on the other hand, indicates that a positive or negative reinforcement following some action of the individual is perceived as not being entirely contingent upon his or her own action but the result of chance, fate, or luck or it may be perceived as under the control of powerful others and unpredictable because of the complexity of forces surrounding the individual (Anastasi, 1988). If we believe that we are the cause of most events, we have a highly internal locus of control. If we believe that most events in our life are caused by luck, fate or powerful others, we have a highly external locus of control. (Morgan et.al.1986).

Gilbert Cook 1885-1951

1952 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Keyword(s):  
Science Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
University Course ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Local Examination

Gilbert Cook was born at Blackburn (Lancashire) on 26 October 1885. He was the third of the four sons of William Cook and his wife Betsy Alice Livesey) both of Blackburn, and later of Garston, near Liverpool. So far as is known, none of his forebears had any marked interest in science. The first school he attended was the Public Higher Grade School, Blackburn, at which he remained till he was ten years old. From then till 1902 he was a pupil of the Roomfield School, Todmorden (Yorkshire). Up to the age of fourteen he showed no marked aptitude for mathematics, being more than once (so he himself related) at the bottom of the class and he actually failed in the Oxford Senior Local Examination. He then came under the direct influence of Joshua Hoyle, M.A., the headmaster, and Esca Sutcliffe, B.A., the science master, and it was mainly due to the latter that he owed the change in outlook which was quickly manifested in a change in performance. At the age of sixteen he won a West Riding of Yorkshire County Scholarship as well as the James Gaskell Entrance Scholarship to Owens College, Manchester, and also a University Entrance Scholarship awarded on the results of the preliminary examination held in schools. He always looked back to the years he spent at Roomfield with gratitude to his teachers. It was a school well equipped for science teaching and much in advance of the standard then prevailing. Its courses in both theoretical and practical chemistry more than covered the requirements of a first year university course. It had, moreover, what was rarer at that time, an excellent physics laboratory. Until he left school Cook had no definite views about the calling he would like to follow. His scholarship successes opened the way to a university instead of the business careers followed by his relatives. It was at the suggestion of his headmaster that he decided upon civil engineering even though he had no family connexions in that profession.

Association between Levenson's Dimensions of Locus of Control and Measures of Coping and Defense Mechanisms

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross R. Vickers ◽  
Terry L. Conway ◽  
Michael A. Haight
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
External Control ◽  
Defense Style ◽  
Personality Styles ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Theoretically, locus of control may be related to coping and defense style. Because little is known about specific relationships, scores on Levenson's Chance, Powerful Others, and Internal control scales were correlated with 20 coping and defense measures for a sample of 2648 Marine Corps recruits. The findings suggested that the relationship of locus of control with coping and defense could be described in terms of two integrated personality styles. The external style combines external control orientations with low coping skills and externalizing defenses, e.g., displacement. The internal style combines internal control with minimizing, reversing defenses, and more extensive coping. These styles received some support from prior research and may help explain the association between better over-all adjustment and internality. These tentative style formulations can provide a basis for more detailed investigations of control and coping and defense.

scholarly journals Validation of the revised edition (1995) of the locus of control inventory

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann M Schepers
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
External Control ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Formal Relations

The principal objective of the study was to determine the cognitive, educational and personality correlates of the revised edition (1995) of the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI). The three-factor-structure of the LCI was confirmed by Schepers (2004a, pp. 36-41). The obtained factors were interpreted as External Control, Internal Control and Autonomy. The resulting scales yielded reliabilities of 0,841, 0,832 and 0,866 respectively. As far as validity is concerned statistically significant relationships were found with the matric mark, and with several measures of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Personal, Home, Social and Formal Relations Questionnaire, the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, and the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory. The implications of the findings are discussed.

Machiavellianism and Locus of Control: Two Conceptions of Interpersonal Power

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1079-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Solar ◽  
Dieter Bruehl
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
External Control ◽  
Interpersonal Power ◽  
Two Measures

Two conceptions of interpersonal power, Rotter's concept of internal-external control and Christie and Geis' concept of Machiavellianism were compared. The I-E scale and the Mach IV scale were given to 3 independent groups. In all 3 samples, external control Ss were significantly higher Machiavellian than internal control Ss. Results were discussed in terms of conflicting values reflected in the scale content of the two measures.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF LOCUS OF EXTERNAL INTERNAL CONTROL, FINANCIAL ATTITUDE, POCKET MONEY AND LIFESTYLE ON THE USE OF E-MONEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Alya Nurul Anggari ◽  
Patriani Wahyu Dewanti
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
External Control ◽  
Pocket Money ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
Regression Tests

Abstract: The Effect of Locus of External and Internal Control, Financial Attitude, Pocket Money and Lifestyle on The Use of E-Money. This study aims to determine the influence of Locus of external internal control, financial attitude, pocket money and lifestyle on the use of e-money in accounting students in Yogyakarta. The population is all students of accounting study programs that are still active in 4 universities in Yogyakarta with a total of 200 respondents and 134 is a sample of this research. This study was conducted by questionnaires using multiple liner regression tests. The results showed that the locus of external control and lifestyle positively influenced the locus of internal control, financial attitude and pocket money of students had no effect on the use of e-money in accounting students of the University in Yogyakarta.Keywords: Locus of control external and internal, Financial attitude, Pocket Money, Lifestyle, E- MoneyAbstrak: Pengaruh Locus Of Control Eksternal Dan Internal, Financial Attitude, Uang Saku, Dan Lifestyle Terhadap Penggunaan E-Money. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruhl Locus of control external dan internal, financial attitude, uang saku dan lifestyle terhadap penggunaan e-money pada mahasiswa akuntansi di Yogyakarta. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa program studi akuntansi aktif di 4 universitas di Yogyakarta dengan total 200 orang dan 134 merupakan sample penelitian. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menyebarkan kuesioner online dengan uji regresi liner berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan locus of control external dan lifestyle berpengaruh positif sedangkan locus of control internal, financial attitude dan uang saku tidak berpengaruh terhadap penggunaan e-money pada mahasiswa akuntansi Universitas di Yogyakarta. Kata Kunci : Locus of control external dan internal, Financial attitude, Uang Saku, Lifestyle, E- Money

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