this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

386 Students (181 female and 205 male) were selected randomly and asked to complete a demographic data sheet. Rutter's Internal and External locus of Control and the Beck Depression Inventory. Data were analyzed by t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results revealed, that 28% of students exhibited external locus of control, whereas, 72% exhibited internal locus of control. The mean sc...

Background: Health locus of control is an important variable in diabetes. The aims of the present study were to investigate the role of health locus of control in predicting psychosocial adjustment to illness and compare psychosocial adjustment to illness and dimensions of health locus of control among male and female type 2 diabetic patients. Methods: One hundred and eighteen patients were ...

Background and Objectives: Diabetes is common among chronic diseases. Various factors such as personality and psychological traits have role in self-care and control in this disease Aim of This study is determination the relationship between self- care and locus of control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Method: This cross-sectional study carried out on 180 patients with diabetes mellitus typ...

Background and Objective: Health locus of control is one of the most widely measured parameters of health belief for the planning of health education programs which plays an important role on the health improvements and education. This study was performed to assess health locus of control among the students at Bushehr University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This cross ...

Locus of control is defined as general pattern of enduring belief in the extent of controllability of outcomes of events in one's life. According to Rotter, one's belief in the controllability can be placed alonge the internal-external continuum. The purpose of the present study was to examine the moderating role of locus of control on the relationship between anger and depression in a sample o...

Aim: The purpose of this study was the study of relationship between religious attitudes, locus of control and tendency to substance abuse among students of Guilan University. Method: The research design was correlational design. For this purpose, 340 university students of Guilan University selected through Morgan table by cluster randome sampling. Allport religious orientation, Ratter locus o...