Essays Tagged: "Locus of control"
Smoking Cessation....
The first article for review is titled Self-efficacy, Health Locus of Control, and Smoking. This article studies how the participants confidence levels and healt ... for six months.Confidence was tested by questionnaires (post, during and at 6-month period). Health Locus is defined by how the participant attributed health outcomes (internal, external or by chance) ... d not to the number of attempts to quit, but the success of the attempts, while 'the role of Health Locus of Control [was found to be] complex needing further investigation' (Stuart, Borland, & Mc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Fate
rizing those who believe that their actions directly lead to the consequences as having an internal locus of control and those that believe that consequences are the result of the workings of fate as ... d those that believe that consequences are the result of the workings of fate as having an external locus of control. This phenomenon was tested using questionnaires with sets of two statements - one ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Predictor Variables of Teenage Pregnancy and Effectiveness of Prevention Programs
ng teenage girl's self-perception: Bandura's (1994) theory of self-efficacy and Rotter's concept of locus of control. Self-efficacy is defined as a person's beliefs about his or her ability to attain ... ls. It has been found to impact the coping ability and behaviors of the individual (Bandura, 1994). Locus of control is a concept describing whether people feel that control of their lives rests in th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Describe what psychologists have found out about lifestyles
ssumptions made by the Health models. Such things as the Health Belief Model by Rosenstock 1966 and Locus of Control (Rotter 1960) highlight this issue. Since the HBM claims to be able to predict cert ... ilable to us and therefore we use heuristic devises (short cuts) to arrive at decisions. The health Locus of control model tends to see people as being either 'external' or 'internal'. However perhaps ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Evaluate what psychologists have found out about lifestyles
ssumptions made by the Health models. Such things as the Health Belief Model by Rosenstock 1966 and Locus of Control (Rotter 1960) highlight this issue. Since the HBM claims to be able to predict cert ... ilable to us and therefore we use heuristic devises (short cuts) to arrive at decisions. The health Locus of control model tends to see people as being either 'external' or 'internal'. However perhaps ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The descriptive approach.
rally right then you need to do it.Other personal characteristics that influence ethical conduct is Locus of Control. "Locus of control" refers to an individual's perception of how much control he or ... ).So according to this chapter it is important that "managers know where their employees fit on the locus of control continuum for it will help them understand how they think and how they might react ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Employee Satisfaction and Productivity in relation to emotions, attitude and behaviors.
ity attributes that appear to have more direct relevance for explaining and predicting behavior are locus of control, Machiavellianism, self-esteem, self-monitoring, risk propensity and Type A persona ... anism, self-esteem, self-monitoring, risk propensity and Type A personality.People with an internal locus of control believe that their own actions determine the rewards that they obtain, while those ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Organizational behavior terms
ily and group, role and institutional determinants.The determinants of personality are self-esteem, locus of control, introversion - extroversion relation, authoritarianism, dogmatism, and dependabili ... valuate our self-esteem and may give us a hint about its importance in the management of change.The locus of control refers to the extent to which people attribute the cause or control of events to th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Health Psychology
vestigated prior to this study. These factors include stress and anxiety, and mental adjustment and locus of control.Researchers felt that if they were able to reduce stress and change mental adjustme ... e State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, The mental Adjustment in Cancer Scale, and Multidimensional Health Locus of ControlScale. These questionnaires were giving to all of the participants which was a sampl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Difficulty In Change
e an assigned task, procrastination (Janssen and Carton, 1999). This was a study to measure the how locus of control affects procrastination. The results were that the internalized locus of control th ... ition. Brooks Cole Publishing: Pacific Grove Janssen, Tracy and Carton, John (1999). The Effects of Locus of Control and Task Difficulty on Procrastination. Journal of Genetic Psychology (160:4) pp 43 ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Anxiety and the variables of trait anxiety
n a study of the relationship between test anxiety and the variables of trait anxiety, self-esteem, locus of control, mental ability, and gender. Results indicated bivariate associations between total ... ucleus concept, we expected that the behavior would be related to anxiety disposition, self-esteem, locus of control, mental ability, and gender.Spielberger (1966) differentiated between state and tra ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Impact of Diversity and Demographic Characteristics on Individual Behavior
ow end of conscientiousness will manifest itself into a person being careless, lazy, and unreliable.Locus of ControlAnother trait that affects behavior is locus of control. Locus of control is defined ... , Osborn, 2005, p. 79). There are two types of loci, internal and external. People with an internal locus of control believe that they are in control of their own lives and destinies. Individuals with ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Untitled
article (Magazine: Journal do- Genetic Psychology, December 1999), they decided to do a study about locus of control of reinforcement. This refers to the way students think about their papers or resea ... from having the paper done. In previous research they have found that there is no relation between locus of control and academic procrastination. They have also found that procrastinators had a great ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
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s. According to Julian Rotter, a person's tendency to view events from an internal vs. an external locus of control can be explained from a social learning theory perspective. For example, as a perso ... ancy about whether reinforcement is internally or externally controlled. Rotter believed that your locus of control, whether internal or external, is an important part of who you are, a part of your ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Fate
he consequences of their behavior to come from: external and internal loci of control. The external locus is the belief that things happen purely as a result of fate or destiny. Whereas the internal l ... their minds. This theory is a relatively stable measure of human personality, although the persons' locus can change under different conditions. Nothing is fixed, especially when dealing with personality.
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Hard to Compromise
nvironmental factors.Some of the biggest problems within personality difference are motivations and locus of control. Motivation is the willingness of a person to exert effort to satisfy needs and wan ... need is for power. These type of members only desire is to control all other team members. And the locus of control can either be internal meaning you believe that you control yourself and your life ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
KEY PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES THAT IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE
g current research, this paper identifies the relationship between the key personality differences (Locus of control, Machiavellianism, Monitoring, Risk-taking, Self-efficacy, Type A and B) and job pe ... be provided that will identify the conceptual relationship of the likely impact on job performance.Locus of ControlLocus of control is the perception of control over own fate that is likened to inter ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management
Myers Briggs Indicator Paper
e most recognized are: the theory of the five factors, order monitoring, indicator, "Myers Briggs," Locus of control and "holland's six types."The study of the early models begin to approach the turn ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Healing Power of Art, and how it pertains to Poisonwood Bible and Year of Wonders
l boost in their situation. More specifically, the altarpiece and power figure give a more internal locus of control. It makes them believe that by behaving in particular manners and by performing cer ... and other devastations. If people think that nothing they do can stop a famine or plague (external locus of control), they are more likely to simply give up, thereby eliminating any chance of their s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Communication and Personality in Negotiation
ke conflict management approach, social value adjustment, interpersonal trust, self efficiency, and locus of control. Awareness of personality in negotiations requires knowledge of how personality inf ... rs and being vulnerable to others behavior (Lewicki, Saunders, & Barry, 2006).Self-Efficacy and Locus of Control is the assumption that one is motivated to be effective and competent to perform hi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers