External and Internal Locus of Control: Community and Individuality

By Tijuana Canders

Common themes and different views about the topic External and Internal Locus of Control: Community and Individuality are compared based from narrative theory views and what they have to say about individual’s problem solving skills, critical thinking through self-identity, altruism, and recognition of environmental influences through the act of using locus of control individually and within community.

Locus of Control focuses on what we have learned to perceive what happens to us. Although each view carries with it the common theme of Locus Control, each view gives its own unique theorized points by way of providing social communication solidity through usage of cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic psychology in hopes of offering diverse ways to mold individuals or communities toward the social experiences of locus of control.

Barriers can be broken to alleviate vast gaps within communication among differences and communities if proper internal locus of control and external locus of control are implemented into the everyday life of people and community holistically and profoundly. Such actions support further advancement of individuals' problem-solving skills, critical thinking through self-identity, altruism, and recognition of environmental influences through the act of using locus control.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Nov 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716453908

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Locus Control: Community and Individuality

Tijuana L. Canders

Walden University

05/03/2020

The thesis provides an integrated review of literature. Common themes and different views

about the topic Locus Control: Community and Individuality will be compared based from

narrative theory views and what they have to say about individual’s problem solving

skills, critical thinking through self-identity, altruism, and recognition of

environmental influences through the act of using locus of control individually and

within community.

Introduction

    Authors comparison of beliefs are similar yet differ along a continuum of factors ranging

from the use of technology to simplistic strategies derived from learned precepts and concepts of

interactions from environmental and role stimulation of variations given through parental and

social interactions (Gelvoligava, 2014). Such known causes of effects influence or alters how

individuals view relationships in community and if they are drawn to receive their potentiality

from external influences (External Locus Control) or from their own concrete view of life from

their inward persona about themselves in order to make sound and just like decisions (Internal

Locus Control) (Gelvoligava, 2014). Locus control is vital in importance of how a person

develops further throughout life and is just as pertinent to consider that both external locus

control and internal locus control are needed at different stages in life to strengthen community

and individuality (Gelvoligava, 2014).

Integrated Review

    Researchers found that internal and external orientation of