Essay On Locus Of Control

Locus of control is the extent to which people feel or believe that they are accountable or in control over their own behaviors. There is the internal Locus of control and the external Locus of control.

✓ INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL:- this Is the group of people who believe that they are in control of their own destiny and anything which happens to them is there own doing or making.

✓ EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL:- this Is the group of people who believe and feel that things happening or that has happened to them in the past is because of others, luck, or powerful being.

Am going to take an example using the believe of most people in my country Nigeria, if you explain Locus of control to a common Nigeria who’s is not educated or exposed, he/she would tell you that the group that make up the internal Locus of control is definitely people from the western world, while African is the group in external Locus of control, because for another example if an internal is told he has high blood pressure, he most likely would try to adopt a more healthier lifestyle like exercise and eat healthy food. But an external who is an African would blame it on witchcraft activities or say things like my spouse is really

My internal Locus of control side will help me take responsibility and knowing that if I study harder or give more time to my studies, i will do a lot better than the last time. For example when my learning journal for unit one was graded even though I passed half mark I still blamed myself for not doing my best to get it 100%, I kept saying if I was given the opportunity again that I did do better. So I think my internal Locus of control will help me give my self a hard push. And according to the test scores attributing failure to unstable internal sources which i do most of the time, will help me mobilize my strength and increase my motivation in future encounter with similar