Locus of control test
Who's driving your life: you or chance?
Rotter's classic: do you attribute what happens to you to your own effort, or to luck, connections and the system? An internal locus predicts everything from salary to health — though taken to the extreme it becomes blaming yourself for the weather.
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Locus of control
What you attribute your outcomes to: your effort (internal) or chance and the system (external).
Where this comes from
This test draws on published, peer-reviewed instruments. It is not a certified adaptation: the items are rewritten in everyday language.
- [1]Rotter (1966). Psychological Monographs, 80(1), 1–28
The original construct: internal vs external expectancies of reinforcement control
- [2]Ng, Sorensen & Eby (2006). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27(8)
Workplace meta-analysis: internal locus tracks with satisfaction and performance
- [3]Cheng, Cheung, Chio & Chan (2013). Psychological Bulletin, 139(1)
Cross-cultural meta-analysis: the locus–anxiety–depression link across countries