An external locus of control (Sue’s example), on the other hand, represents a position where individuals feel like their life is controlled by external forces or fate. They believe that factors ...

Parental Locus of Control In 1986, Campis, Lyman, and Prentice-Dunn extended the concept of locus of control to parenting. They created the Parental Locus of Control Scale. "Parents with external ...

Psychologists call this ‘Locus of Control’ and talk about people having an Internal or External Locus Of Control. Back when I trained as a teacher, they didn’t teach us ideas like ‘locus of control’ ...

A key predictor identified in the study is external locus of control, which is the belief that one’s life is governed by outside forces. “Combine that with extreme partisanship, and you get an ...