Examining the Role of Home Environment on the Locus of Control

The present study is an attempt to examine the role of home environment in developing an adolescents' locus of control. The data were collected by mutiphasic sampling method. In the first phase 600 adolescents (300 boys and 300 girls) in the age range of 14-18 years belonging to nuclear families were selected and administered the self developed home environment scale. After that the respondents were categorized into two groups i.e. the participants with favourable and unfavourable home environment on the basis of their mean and standard deviation on the said scale which were the final research subjects for the study. In the last phase the final sample of 281 subjects (152 favourable home environment and 129 unfavourable home environment) were administered R. Pal's Locus of Control Scale. The data were analyzed in the SPSS Program. The results of the study revealed that there is a significant role of home environment in developing an adolescent's locus of control.