Impact of Locus of Control Expectancy on Level of Well-Being

April, Kurt; Dharani, Babar; Peters, Kai

doi:10.5539/res.v4n2p124

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“…Studies on subjective well-being emphasize that locus of control is essentially important to explain well-being besides the ''big five'' (e.g., April, Dharani, & Peters, 2012;DeNeve & Cooper, 1998;Diener et al, 1999;Stocks, April, & Lynton, 2012), with internal locus of control correlating positively with subjective well-being and external locus of control negatively. Moreover, BJW research has shown that internal locus of control is positively associated with BJW (Lipkus, 1991;Rim, 1981;Rubin & Peplau, 1973, 1975Witt, 1989;Zuckerman & Gerbasi, 1977; for a review, see also Furnham & Procter, 1989).…”

Section: Control Factorsmentioning

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The Meaning of Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World for Positive and Negative Aspects of School-Specific Well-Being

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In two cross-sectional questionnaire studies with N = 1792 German and Indian students, aged between 12 and 17 years, we investigated the relation between personal belief in a just world (BJW) and positive as well as negative dimensions of school-specific well-being. Furthermore, we considered students' personal experience of teacher justice as possible mediator in this relation and controlled for confounding effects of gender, neuroticism, and locus of control. In Study 1, we used multilevel modeling to analyze the German data and to control for class-level effects. In accordance with our hypotheses, Study 1 showed that the more students believed in a personal just world, the better their positive attitudes toward school, their academic self-esteem, and their enjoyment in school were, and the less somatic complaints in school, social problems in school, and worries toward school they experienced. These associations partly differed between classes, but generally persisted when controlled for sex, neuroticism, and locus of control. Finally, the association between personal BJW and well-being was at least partly mediated by students' personal experience of teacher justice. In Study 2, we focused on the generalizability of the pattern of results across different cultural contexts. However, we did not aim to carry out comparative research. Results from bootstrap mediation analyses were predominantly the same as in Study 1. The adaptive functions of BJW and implications for future school research are discussed.

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Section: Control Factorsmentioning

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“…This tendency characterises a person's perspective on selfindependence in contrast to control by others. Locus of control also determines the likelihood of a particular behaviour as well as the outcomes of engaging in such behaviour (April, Dharani, & Peters, 2012). In the context of an engineering environment, locus of control describes the capacity of engineers to shape and influence work-related outcomes such as engineering drawing, maintenance of substations and execution of technical tasks such as restoration of power in customers' houses.…”

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The combined influence of self-leadership and locus of control on the job performance of engineering workforce in a power generation utility: An empirical perspective

Rambe

Modise

Chipunza

2018

SA j. hum. resour. manag.

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Orientation: The joint effects of self-leadership and locus of control within an engineering context have been under-explored because much research focused on self-leadership and locus of control as independent concepts, and studies on their combined effects on organisational performance remain hard to encounter in emerging economies.Research purpose: The aim of the study was to develop deeper empirical knowledge of the combined effects of self-leadership and locus of control on job performance of engineering workforce in Eskom Free State.Motivation for the study: The originality of the study lies in the reconstitution of individual self-leadership and locus of control concepts as they relate to job performance and its impact on prospective engineers who work at Eskom in Bloemfontein.Research approach/design and method: Drawing on a quantitative approach, a survey was conducted on 134 engineering personnel (comprising engineers, technologists and technicians). Of this workforce, a total of 107 engineers participated in the study representing a response rate of 79.8%. Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the corpus of quantitative data.Main findings: The results demonstrate that self-leadership and locus of control are significant independent variables and when considered jointly, they have a positive significant impact on job performance of the Eskom engineering workforce.Practical/managerial implications: Implications for the initiation and fostering of self-leadership and locus of control to improve the job performance of Eskom Bloemfontein engineering workforce are discussed.Contribution/value-add: The study contributes to engineers’ task-focused behaviour through its expectations for the engineering workforce to be self-leaders who exercise internal locus of control in the execution of their jobs. This study also contributes to engineers’ work-related personality dimensions and sense of self-awareness through an exposition of individual personalities they were not conscious of.

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“…Di sisi lain, pemahaman akan locus of control juga perlu dimiliki oleh orang tua. Locus of control adalah teori pembelajaran sosial psikologis yang mengacu pada sejauh mana individu merasakan kontrol atas kehidupan mereka, dan lingkungan (April, Dharani, & Peters, 2012). Pemahaman mengenai aspek ini perlu dibutuhkan mengingat locus of control mampu meningkatkan efficacy atau kepercayaan diri serta keefektifan menahan gangguan stres (Darshani, 2014).…”

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Information services in counseling and locus of control toward communication between parents and children’s

Fitriyanti

Dachmiati

Satrianta

2017

Terap.j.bimbing.konsel.

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The aim of this research is to know how much contribution given by information services in counseling and locus of control toward communication between parents and children. This research is a quantitative research using survey. This research was conducted in Komunitas Bunda Condet. The sample for this study came to 44 people taken by saturated sample distribution technique. Data were collected through a questionnaire. Data was analyzed by using multiple regression test with the help of SPSS 22 for windows. The results showed that information services and locus of control contribute to communication between parents and children. These results prove that communication quality can be improved by taking into account information services and locus of control.

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Impact of Locus of Control Expectancy on Level of Well-Being

Cited by 100 publications

References 59 publications

The Meaning of Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World for Positive and Negative Aspects of School-Specific Well-Being

The Meaning of Students’ Personal Belief in a Just World for Positive and Negative Aspects of School-Specific Well-Being

The combined influence of self-leadership and locus of control on the job performance of engineering workforce in a power generation utility: An empirical perspective

Information services in counseling and locus of control toward communication between parents and children’s

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