Essay On Locus Of Control

I am not good at anything”, expressing a generalised feeling of worthlessness as a consequence of poor academic achievement. These feelings can create barriers to academic success consequently increasing the anxiety and lowering the self-concept, thus entering into a vicious circle which may with time magnify the symptoms. Sometimes locus of control is seen as a stable, underlying personality construct, but this may be misleading, since the theory and research indicates that locus of control is largely learned. Some psychological and educational interventions have been found to produce shifts towards internal locus of control (e.g., outdoor education programs) (Hans, 2000).

Brooks and Nulty (2005) explained that more the pupils with learned

Where the child feels unable to use external reactionary mechanisms, such as deviance, anger and avoidance, they will use internal mechanisms to react to their traumatic situation. It is hypothesized that dyslexic ‘pre-school children may lose bladder control and develop speech disfluency, such as stuttering’, as a regressionary reaction to their inability to cope with their difficulties. Nocturnal enuresis is a condition in which a person who has bladder control while awake urinates while asleep. The condition is commonly called bed-wetting and it often has a psychological impact on children and their families. Children with the condition often have low self-esteem and weak interpersonal relationships, poor quality of life, and poor performance at school (Hoecke & Gubrium, 2004). If parents are aware that a bed-wetter has no medical problems but is having difficulty with paying attention in school, concentrating on academic material, impulsive behaviour, fidgetiness, intermittent explosive tantrums, or conduct disorder, then dyslexia may be the underlying