Locus of Control Scale [Gilad Feldman Research WIKI]

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====== Locus of Control Scale ======


===== Background =====


Introduced by [[http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/mon/80/1/1/|Rotter (1966)]] 

===== The scale =====

Scoring

<blockquote>
  * Score one point for response ‘a’ to questions: 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, and 13. 
  * Score one point for response ‘b’ to questions: 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

</blockquote> 

The items:
 
<blockquote>

Please choose one choice (a or b) for each number: 

  * 1. a. Children get into trouble because their patents punish them too much.  
  * 1. b. The trouble with most children nowadays is that their parents are too easy with them.  
  * 2. a. Many of the unhappy things in people's lives are partly due to bad luck.  
  * 2. b. People's misfortunes result from the mistakes they make.  
  * 3. a. One of the major reasons why we have wars is because people don't take enough interest in politics.  
  * 3. b.  There  will  always  be  wars,  no  matter  how  hard  people  try  to  prevent them.  
  * 4. a. In the long run people get the respect they deserve in this world.  
  * 4. b. Unfortunately, an individual's worth often passes unrecognized no matter how hard he tries.  
  * 5. a. The idea that teachers are unfair to students is nonsense.  
  * 5. b. Most students don't realize the extent to which their grades are influenced by accidental happenings.  
  * 6. a. Without the right breaks, one cannot be an effective leader.  
  * 6. b. Capable people who fail to become leaders have not taken advantage of their opportunities.  
  * 7. a. No matter how hard you try, some people just don't like you.   
  * 7. b. People  who  can't  get  others  to  like  them  don't  understand  how  to  get along with others.  
  * 8. a. Heredity plays the major role in determining one's personality.  
  * 8. b. It is one's experiences in life which determine what they're like.  
  * 9. a. I have often found that what is going to happen will happen.  
  * 9. b. Trusting fate has never turned out as well for me as making a decision to take a definite course of action.  
  * 10. a. In the case of the well prepared student there is rarely, if ever, such a thing as an unfair test.  
  * 10. b. Many times, exam questions tend to be so unrelated to course work that studying is really useless.  
  * 11. a. Becoming a success is a matter of hard work, luck has little or nothing to do with it.  
  * 11. b. Getting  a  good  job  depends  mainly  on  being  in  the  right  place  at  the right time.  
  * 12. a. The average citizen can have an influence in government decisions.  
  * 12. b. This world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do about it.  
  * 13. a. When I make plans, I am almost certain that I can make them work.  
  * 13. b. It is not always wise to plan too far ahead because many things turn out to be a matter of good or bad fortune anyhow.
</blockquote> 

===== SPSS Syntax =====

<code>
compute locus=((lc1=1)+(lc2=2)+(lc3=1)+(lc4=1)+(lc5=1)+(lc6=2)+(lc7=2)+(lc8=2)+(lc9=2)+(lc10=1)+(lc11=1)+(lc12=1)+(lc13=1)).
exec.
</code>