Internal and External Locus of Control in Relation to Beliefs in Free Will and Determinism
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 53 (2) , 631-634
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.631
Abstract
Responses of 85 male and 56 female undergraduates to a scale designed to measure beliefs in free will or determinism were correlated with responses to an internal/external locus of control questionnaire. Analysis gave only a low-order correlation between scores on the scales, and factor analysis led to the conclusion that beliefs in free will or determinism are not necessarily related to beliefs in internal or external locus of control. Explanations were offered for why those who believe in free will might nevertheless believe in many external constraints upon behaviors and why determinists might believe in the so-called internal locus of control.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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