Locus Of control(part 01)

    Definition: How you explain your successes and failures.

• Internals:           See themselves as responsible for both  success and failure. They attribute success and failure internally.Effort  and/or ability are the factors  they  see at work to produce outcomes.

• Externals:    See the outside external factors as  responsible for their successes and failures.

     Externals 

      Cultural Origins of External Locus of Control:

  Fatalism                          —God wanted it that way

   Submission to nature     —Not challenging nature

                   Mañana syndrome          —Take care of it tomorrow

                   Oral tradition                   — Pass down customs and traditions  

                                                

                   Non- competitive             —This is my lot in life

         

Sociological Origins of External Locus of Control:

            •Poverty-Failure Experience,

         This robs individuals ofdecision-making  roles,where to live, where and if children can go to college, choosing a different lifestyle.

            •The culture in the United States necessitates

  internal awareness  because  everything  has  a cause effect.In this society to get ahead an individual must be in charge of both the cause and the effect of his/her actions.