Open AccessLocus of control of English philology undergraduates
Author(s) -
Paulina Ogórek,
Adriana Biedroń
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
beyond philology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-1498
pISSN - 1732-1220
DOI - 10.26881/bp.2020.3.06
Subject(s) - luck , locus of control , psychology , philology , social psychology , control (management) , epistemology , sociology , gender studies , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , feminism
The concept of locus of control shows the relationship between events and people’s reactions to them, depending on whether they attribute their outcomes to internal or external factors. Accordingly, people can be divided into two main groups. Those who feel personally responsible for what happens to them are labelled internals, whilst those who believe that external forces such as fate, luck or objective difficulties determine their life are termed externals. This paper presents the results of a study conducted on 41 English philology undergraduate participants with a view to investigating their locus of control, that is, whether they perceive their academic outcomes as the result of their skills and abilities or rather fate or luck, in other words, if they feel personally responsible for their academic successes and failures.