Locus of Control

Neal, Maya; DeBattista, Jerusha

doi:10.1177/1066480713515160

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“…Interventions designed to enhance individual's sense of control and capacity of proactively dealing with couple problems would be beneficial to improve couple commitment. This is in line with the literature on family enrichment in the social psychology literature (Neal et al, 2014). Couple therapists need to further enhance individual's locus of control over couple difficulties to improve their capacity and attitude towards problem-solving.…”

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The association between marital locus of control and break‐up intentions

Boto‐García

Perali

2023

American J Econ Sociol

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Understanding couple instability is a topic of social and economic relevance. This paper investigates how the risk of dissolution relates to efforts to solve disagreements. We study whether marital locus of control (a noncognitive trait that captures individual's perception of control over problems within the couple) is associated with the prevalence of relationship instability in the past. We implement a list experiment using the count‐item technique to a sample of current real‐life couples to elicit truthful answers about couple break‐up intentions in the past at the individual level. We find that around 44% of our sample has considered to end their relationship with their current partner at least once in the past. The intention to break‐up is more prevalent among those who score low in marital locus of control, males, low‐income earners, individuals with university studies, and couples without children.

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The association between marital locus of control and break‐up intentions

Boto‐García

Perali

2023

American J Econ Sociol

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Understanding the early life mediators behind the intergenerational transmission of partnership dissolution

Stannard

Berrington

Alwan

2022

Advances in Life Course Research

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Locus of control and marital satisfaction: Couple perspectives using Australian data

Lee

McKinnish

2019

Journal of Economic Psychology

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.We investigate the effect of own and partner locus of control (LOC) on marital satisfaction using household longitudinal data from Australia. We also examine how the evolution of marital satisfaction over time depends on LOC. LOC indicates whether one believes that one's outcomes are more under personal control (internal LOC) or more under the control of external forces such as luck, fate or powerful others (external LOC). LOC orientation likely affects spouses' perception of marital problems and their willingness to utilize relationship-maintenance strategies when marital problems arise. We find that more internal LOC is associated with higher marital satisfaction and that own LOC matters more for marital satisfaction than spouse's LOC. Couples in which the husband is more externally oriented experience declines in marital satisfaction over time relative to couples in which the husband is more internally oriented. JEL Classification:D1, J12

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Locus of Control

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

The association between marital locus of control and break‐up intentions

The association between marital locus of control and break‐up intentions

Understanding the early life mediators behind the intergenerational transmission of partnership dissolution

Locus of control and marital satisfaction: Couple perspectives using Australian data

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