A Conceptual Difference between Internal-External Locus of Control and Causal Attribution

Pettersen, Normand

doi:10.2466/pr0.1987.60.1.203

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“…In addition to domain specificity and multidimensionality, locus of control measures need to distinguish between expectations for the future and causal accounts or explanations of the past (Palenzuela, 1988;Pettersen, 1987). Furthermore, social learning theory invokes the concept of reward contingency where an internal locus of control can be assigned to a person who expects reinforcements to be contingent on his or her behavior or personal attributes.…”

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The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

Millar

Shevlin

2007

Journal of Career Development

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This article describes the development and psychometric assessment of a multidimensional, domain-specific Career Locus of Control Scale (CLOC) designed for use with adolescent school pupils engaged in the career development and decision-making process. A 47-item version was administered to 743 school pupils, age 15 or 16 years evenly split between males and females (54% male). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to develop a 20-item scale that represented expectations related to Internality, Luck, Helplessness, and Powerful Others. Estimates of internal reliability of the subscales were high, and scale scores correlated significantly with measures of generalized locus of control and career decision self-efficacy. Overall, the CLOC scale demonstrated promising psychometric properties such that further research appears warranted and required.

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The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

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Shevlin

2007

Journal of Career Development

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“…The concept of 'control' suggested by Rotter has been extended to cover two important aspects of our perception (Pettersen 1987;Wong and Sproule 1984). The first is about the perception of being able or not being able to control what is happening around us (Graybill 1983;Palenzuela 1984).…”

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Design for Experience

Kim¹

2015

Human–Computer Interaction Series

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EpilogueIt has been more than 20 years since the HCI Lab at Yonsei University was founded. There has been a dramatic change in our surroundings over the last 20 years. The internet has become an inseparable part of our lives, and smartphones are now more important than PCs. I expect the changes in the next 20 years to be just as dramatic in speed and scale, if not more.The HCI Lab has been, and still is, working extremely hard on its researches. We participate in numerous government-funded research projects, and we work together with the industry to seek solutions to its problems. I have been highly motivated to teach courses at the university, thanks to the wonderful students who have showed their diligence and enthusiasm towards the field of HCI. We work hard to develop the ideas that are brought up during classes and projects into research papers.Yet sometimes, I feel like something is missing. Even great research papers become outdated in few years. This is especially true for HCI papers that are based on trendy IT technologies in this fast-paced world. In reality, journal papers in HCI field easily fall behind the trends during its review period.So I began to think that we need to understand the fundamental principles in the field of HCI in order to devise design principles and processes that can last for decades. Moreover, it is more important to understand "why" than "how." So I initially began putting down my thoughts on my daily experiences with various IT products and services in small hopes of finding out the "why."But the small hopes grew larger during the process of writing. As a president of the Korean HCI Society, I became ambitious to let the world know of the excellence of the HCI community in Korea. I also felt responsibility as a General Conference Chair of the organizing committee for the ACM SIGCHI conference, which is held in Korea for the first time in 2015. While writing, I was also appointed as Vice President of the Library and Information Services of Yonsei University.However, such big hopes and ambitions were more of a hindrance than help for my writing as I became too stressed out and pressured to enjoy the process of the writing itself. I even thought about deserting the writing completely.

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“…A fourth major criticism of locus of control emerged of late and was recently the topic of a critique by Pettersen (1987). Pettersen noted the synthesis that has taken place between locus of control and attribution theory.…”

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Enriching the professional repertoire of social workers: locus of control as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool

Suri¹

1997

Scand J Soc Welf

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This article examines the locus of control construct and its utility from a social work perspective. For an overview, the background and evolution of the locus of control concept and the characteristics of internally and externally controlled individuals are provided. How this construct is relevant to social work is treated in relation to social work functions, areas of application, as well as relevant social work treatment issues. The article concludes by examining common criticisms of the locus of control construct and argues for a formal inclusion of this concept in the education and treatment process in social work.

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A Conceptual Difference between Internal-External Locus of Control and Causal Attribution

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The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

The Development and Factor Structure of a Career Locus of Control Scale for Use With School Pupils

Design for Experience

Enriching the professional repertoire of social workers: locus of control as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool

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