An empirical assessment of the construct "work locus of control"
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | An empirical assessment of the construct "work locus of control" | |
| Creator | Maram, Allan Miller, Karen | |
| Description | This study is concerned with the domain specificity of the locus of control construct within the workplace. The research investigated whether Specter's (1988) work locus of control scale, a work centred conceptualisation of Rotter's (1966) locus of control measure/ demonstrated evidence of criterion - related validity. This was done by assessing its relationship to leader-member exchange and organisational commitment. The results indicated that work locus of control correlated with both leader-member exchange and organisational commitment and that leadermember exchange acted as a mediator of the relationship between work locus of control and organisational commitment. This is consistent with results from a similar study undertaken by Kinicki & Vecchio (1994) who employed Rotter's (1966) general locus of control measure. The current research demonstrated stronger relationship than Kinicki & Vecchio's (1994) study, which suggests that Specter's (1988) domain specific scale may predict work behaviour more precisely than Rotter's (1966) more general measure. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1998-06-25 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v24i3.661 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 24, No 3 (1998); 48-51 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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