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Rotter՚s Locus of Control: Types of Locus of Control

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  • Locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.
  • It is a social learning theory of personality. It is a concept in personality psychology developed by Julian Rotter in 1954. Locus or “loci” is a Latin word which means place or location. Hence a person՚s locus is either internal or external.

Types of Locus of Control

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Seligman՚s Explanatory Styles: Aspects of Explanatory Styles

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During 1970s Martin Seligman proposed a concept of “learned helplessness” . Learned helplessness is behavior occurring when the subject endures repeatedly painful or otherwise aversive stimuli which it is unable to escape from or avoid. Later the subject learns to “escape” or “avoid” such situations. He developed two types of explanatory styles on the basis of this learned helplessness viz. , optimistic and pessimistic explanatory style.

  • Pessimistic Explanatory Style: People who generally tend to blame themselves for negative events, believe that such events will continue indefinitely, & let such events affect many aspects of…

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