Deconstructing Locus of Control: Implications for Practitioners

Marks, Lawrence I.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1998.tb02540.x

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“…For example Western cultures emphasise primary or internal control while Japanese culture emphasises secondary or external control. European Americans and those of higher SES report more internal control while the Japanese report more external control; Hispanic cultures also commonly hold external locus of control beliefs, which may be stronger in those of a lower SES (Marks, 1998). Chinese students studying in Australia and Asian-Australian migrant students were also more likely to endorse an external locus of control than Anglo-Saxon Australian students (Leung, 2001).…”

Section: Differences In Presentation: Psychological Controlmentioning

confidence: 88%

Eating and body image disturbances across cultures: a review

Soh

Touyz

Surgenor

2006

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

139

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Objective: To critically review the literature examining the impact of acculturation, socio-economic status, family functioning and psychological control in relation to eating and body image disturbances across cultures. Method: A review of the literature on eating disorders, eating and body image disturbances, psychological control, body composition, socio-economic status and family functioning on different cultural groups. Results: Of the empirical studies undertaken, few investigated a cultural group's eating pathology in both its country of origin and a Western country using the same methodology. To date, the research findings are mixed and it is still unclear if the presentation of an eating disorder differs across cultures. Acculturation has not been consistently taken into consideration and psychological control has not been examined in relation to eating disturbances in non-Western groups. Discussion: This review focuses on some of the methodological limitations of previous research and attempts to delineate the salient issues which warrant further scientific enquiry.

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Section: Differences In Presentation: Psychological Controlmentioning

confidence: 88%

Eating and body image disturbances across cultures: a review

Soh

Touyz

Surgenor

2006

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

139

122

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“…The singles have the freedom and the mobility to affiliate into different and more groups and that hold up the expectations, that the people depend on the group to which belong and they have not control to the events they take place in. Marks (1998) proved that the more affiliation increased the more group dependency grew and at the same time the internal locus of control went down and the external locus of control heightened. A data from another research (Virmozelova, 2012) confirmed a negative significant relationship between the locus of control and the group affiliation suggesting that a higher level of the group affiliation experienced by the singles was related to low internal locus of control and to high external locus of control (r = -.303; p < .001).…”

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“…In addition, Lynch et al (2002) found out that the parent`s overprotection led to the high level of the external locus of control. Marks (1998) demonstrated in his studies that the existence of certain group affiliation, as gender and ethnical affiliation was a factor that influenced the type of locus of control. As the affiliation increases so the group dependency grows further and at the same time the internal locus of control goes down.…”

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Locus of control and its relationship with some social-demographic factors

Angelova¹

2016

Psychol. Thought

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The main purpose of the research is to find out the relation of social-demographic factors (education, family status, professional activity and place of residence) and the type of locus of control. Participants for the present study were 608 persons ranged between 15 and 65 years of age. The majority of the participants (472, 77.7%) indicated an external locus of control. Three of four factors -family status, professional activity, and education -had a significant relationship, and place of residence was the only factor without a significant relationship with the locus of control.

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“…The concept of locus of control was originally developed by Julian Rotter in the 1950's and has its foundation in social learning theory (Marks, 1998). Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events and behavioural results in their lives (Judge & Bono, 2001) or the extent to which people believe that the rewards they receive in life can be controlled by their own personal actions (Wang, Bowling, & Eschleman, 2010).…”

Section: Locus Of Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

The elaboration and empirical evaluation of the De Goede learning potential structural model

Heerden

Theron

2014

SAJBM

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As a direct result of having segregated amenities and public services during the Apartheid era where Black individuals were provided with services inferior to those of White individuals, the country is currently challenged by serious and a debilitating skills shortage across most industry sectors, high unemployment and poverty rates, and inequality in terms of income distribution as well as in terms of racial representation in the workforce. These challenges are the consequence of a larger problem that knowledge, skills and abilities are not uniformly distributed across all races. In the past, and still now, White South Africans had greater access to skills development and educational opportunities. It is this fundamental inequality that has to be addressed. It is argued that skills development -specifically affirmative action skills development should form part of the solution. A need therefore exists to identify the individuals who would gain maximum benefit from such affirmative action skills development opportunities and to create the conditions that would optimise learning performance. To achieve this, an understanding is required of the complex nomological network of latent variables that determine learning performance. De Goede (2007) proposed and tested a learning potential structural model based on the work of Taylor (1994). The primary objective of this study was to expand on De Goede's (2007) learning potential structural model in order to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity underlying learning performance. A subset of the hypothesised expanded learning potential structural model was empirically evaluated. The first analysis of the structural model failed to produce a good fit to the data. The model was subsequently modified by both adding additional paths and by removing insignificant paths. The final revised structural model was found to fit the data well. All paths contained in the final model were empirically corroborated. The practical implications of the learning potential structural model on HR and organisations are discussed. Suggestions for future research are made by indicating how the model can be further elaborated. The limitations of the study are also discussed.

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Deconstructing Locus of Control: Implications for Practitioners

Cited by 73 publications

References 82 publications

Eating and body image disturbances across cultures: a review

Eating and body image disturbances across cultures: a review

Locus of control and its relationship with some social-demographic factors

The elaboration and empirical evaluation of the De Goede learning potential structural model

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