Abstract:

This study was aimed to determine the locus of control levels of university students staying in the Credit and Dormitories Institution and to reveal whether the locus of control levels differed according to demographic characteristics.In the study, the locus of control scale adapted into Turkish by Dağ (2002) was used on 455 (170 males and 285 females) students, who were studying at KaramanoğluMehmetbey University in 2018-2019 academic year and staying at the Credit and Dormitories Institution. Due to the parametric distribution (p> 0.05), independent samples t-test and One-way ANOVA tests were used in the statistical evaluation of the obtained data. As a result of the research, the locus of control level of the students participating in the research was determined as = 134.2747, and considering the lowest and highest value that can be taken from the scale (the lowest 47 - the highest 235 points can be obtained from the scale.) The gender, age, faculty of education of the participants / college / vocational school, class, credit dormitories, the education status of the father and mother, father's occupation, mother's employment status and family's monthly income, while there is a significant difference according to the environment in which they grow up and the participants have internal control levels. It has been determined.

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