Locus of control
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In personality psychology, locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control. Understanding of the concept was developed by Julian B. Rotter in 1954, and has since become an aspect of personality studies. A person's "loci" (plural of "locus", Latin for "place" or "location") are conceptualized as internal (a belief that one's life can be controlled) or external (a belief that life is controlled by outside factors which they cannot influence, or that chance or fate controls their lives).
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See also
- Aging
- Attribution
- Determinism
- Explanatory style
- Free will
- Fundamental attribution error
- Illusion of control
- Law of attraction (New Thought)
- Learned helplessness
- Optimism
- Personal boundaries
- Pessimism
- Sense of agency – an awareness of making and executing plans
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