Locus of control
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psychological concept referring to an individual's perception of the outcome of a circumstance (locus of events) as primarily determined by one's own behavior or by external forces, such as luck, fate or other's behavior.
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- Using health locus of control scales to measure health related locus of control is used to evaluate health education program success.
- Locus of control is grounded in expectancy-value theory, which describes human behavior as determined by the perceived likelihood of an event or outcome occurring contingent upon the behavior in question, and the value placed on that event or outcome.
- She wrote, "According to the self evaluation exercise my locus of control is external.
- What is locus of control? How does it relate to our behavior? Locus of control is the perceived source of control over our behavior.
- The hypotheses-testing results confirm that locus of control is a relatively significant predictor for perceived interactivity: people oriented to internal locus of control are likely to perceive a higher level of interactivity than those oriented to external locus of control.
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