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Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Factors among Lovely Professional University Students


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1 Department of School of Social Sciences & Languages, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
2 Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
     

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The cardinal object of the present study was to investigate the locus of control and big five personality factors among lovely professional university students. Further the study also strived to find out the relationship between locus of control and big five personality factors. For this purpose the sample of 100 samples were selected from Lovely Professional University through simple random sampling technique. Rotter's Locus of control Scale and Big five personality traits constructed by John and Srivastava were used for assessment purpose. For statistical analysis independent t-test and correlation analysis was applied by using SPSS 20.0 version. The result revealed that there is no significant gender and age difference found in big five personal factors and locus of control. Further no significant relationship between locus of control and big five personality traits.

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Locus of Control, Big Five Personality Factor and Gender.
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Ankita Gupta
Department of School of Social Sciences & Languages, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Mohammad Amin Wani
Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Abstract


The cardinal object of the present study was to investigate the locus of control and big five personality factors among lovely professional university students. Further the study also strived to find out the relationship between locus of control and big five personality factors. For this purpose the sample of 100 samples were selected from Lovely Professional University through simple random sampling technique. Rotter's Locus of control Scale and Big five personality traits constructed by John and Srivastava were used for assessment purpose. For statistical analysis independent t-test and correlation analysis was applied by using SPSS 20.0 version. The result revealed that there is no significant gender and age difference found in big five personal factors and locus of control. Further no significant relationship between locus of control and big five personality traits.

Keywords


Locus of Control, Big Five Personality Factor and Gender.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2018%2Fv9i4%2F181025