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| Published: September 25, 2015
A Study on Locus of Control among College Students of Gulbarga City
M.Sc. IV, Clinical and counselling psychology, Department of psychology, School of social and behavioural sciences, Central University of Karnataka
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DIP: 18.01.027/20150204
DOI: 10.25215/0204.027
ABSTRACT
The current study focuses on locus of control and the difference in it among different demographic variables such as gender (male and female), course of study (science and arts) and locality (urban and rural) among college students. It is a promising area of inquiry. The age of college students is the age of developing their personality and is a critical context for studying personality. The study was conducted on 171 college student of Gulbarga city who were selected by a random sampling method (lottery method). The questionnaire consisted of personal data sheet, and Rotter’s locus of control scale. Descriptive Statistics and non-parametric statistics as Mann-Witney test (U) were used to analyze the data. The results could not find significant difference on locus of control among males & females, science & arts and urban & rural college students.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I A Naik
Received: February 20, 2015; Revision Received: July 29, 2015; Accepted: September 25, 2015
Abdul Raffie Naik @ abdulraffie@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.027/20150204
10.25215/0204.027
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Published in Volume 02, Issue 4, July-September, 2015