Volume : 7, Issue : 3, March - 2018

Locus of Control in College Going Students

Anubha Srivastava

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">This study investigated locus of control among college going students. A 29 item Locus of Control questionnaire (Rotter, 1966) was used to measure locus of control.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>A sample of 30 girls and 30 boys were taken. Independent sample t-test was used for statistical analysis. This study has consistent results with the earlier studies. Results of this research indicate that boys has internal locus of control and girls scored high on external locus of control. So the gender difference is significant on Locus of Control. <o:p></o:p></span></p>