Jordan was involved in a car accident and claimed that both the other driver and his mother were to blame for not applying the brakes quickly enough. Jordan, in Julian Rotter's opinion, has an external locus of control.
- An external locus of control is the conviction that one's actions will not lead to valued reinforcement that is available in the environment and thus not under one's control. Reinforcement is supposed to result from uncontrollable factors like luck, chance, or randomness.
- Numerous studies show a correlation between several risks for illegal or hazardous behavior and having an external locus of control as a primary motivator. Researchers have found that those with an external locus of control are less likely than people with an internal locus of control to take part in therapy.
- The impression of a person's locus of control refers to the underlying fundamental reasons of the events in his or her life.
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