INTRODUCTION Health locus of control refers to the belief that health is in one's control (internal control) or is not in one's control (external control). Among adults, external locus of control is associated with negative health outcomes, whereas internal locus of control is associated with favorable outcomes. Few studies examined these associations among youths. The objective of our study wa...

background: consideration of risk factors of cancer and their clinical consequences is important. the purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive role of psychosocial and demographical risk factors for odds ratio of suffering by of cancer. methods: in a case- control study, 335 included 163 patients with cancers (solid tumors) of those patients that attended to cancer institute hosp...

nurses are full partners with other health care professionals. until fairly recently the scope of nurses potential in entrepreneurship has not been widely recognized. the present study tries to evaluate entrepreneurship psychological characteristics among nurses. the survey instrument included scales measuring entrepreneurship psychological characteristics including locus of control, need for a...

The objective of this study was to compare the psychological variable upon health beliefs (Health Locus of Control) among female University level athletes. A total numbers of 100 athletes (50 track athletes and 50 field athletes) were selected from all India University athletics championship completed the Multidimensional health locus of control questionnaire containing measures of study variab...