When something goes wrong, it’s natural to cast blame on the perceived cause of the misfortune. Where an individual casts that blame can be related, in many cases, to a psychological construct known ...

COVID-19: An unprecedented era of loss of control and uncertainty The COVID-19 pandemic is causing enormous stress for countless millions of people in all world regions. There has been no crisis of ...

Objective: Observe and record the demographic and anthropomorphic correlates of health beliefs in American Indians using the multidimensional health locus of control (MHLC) scale. Design: ...

American psychologist Julian Rotter developed the concept of "locus of control" in the 1950s, describing it as "the degree to which a person perceives an outcome as being contingent on their own ...