Internal-External Locus of Control Scale
Rotter (1966)
Anatomy
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Items
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Reliability & validity
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Items measuring this instrument
Canonical item stems whose source_items[] includes a variant from this instrument. Capped at 10; see the full list via the link below.
11 a becoming a success is a matter of hard work luck has little or nothing to do with it b getting a good job depends mainly on being in t…
12 a the average citizen can have an influence in government decisions b this world is run by the few people in power and there is not much…
13 a when i make plans i am almost certain that i can make them work b it is not always wise to plan too far ahead because many things turn…
15 a in my case getting what i want has little or nothing to do with luck b many times we might just as well decide what to do by flipping…
16 a who gets to be the boss often depends on who was lucky enough to be in the right place first b getting people to do the right thing de…
17 a as far as world affairs are concerned most of us are the victims of forces we can neither understand nor control b by taking an active…
18 a most people dont realize the extent to which their lives are controlled by accidental happenings b there really is no such thing as lu…
2 a many of the unhappy things in peoples lives are partly due to bad luck b peoples misfortunes result from the mistakes they make
3 a one of the major reasons why we have wars is because people dont take enough interest in politics b there will always be wars no matter…
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