Effects of Locus of Control on Differences in Health Management
Locus of Control has a very significant effect on both health and health management. Numerous studies have been carried out to see how being at the either end of the spectrum affected health factors. A study “Locus of Control patterns in headaches and chronic pain” showed that people with the internal locus of control adjust to pain better than those who allot control to external circumstances (Cano-García, et al. 2013). Internals also tended to experience pain of less intensity, frequency, duration and interference. Breaking external circumstances down, those who believed the control to be in the hands of the powerful others, fared almost as well as the internals; however, the pure chance sample did significantly worse.
Interestingly, researchers in this study also used other types of locus of control. For example, they found that people who perceived that the control was roughly equally distributed among themselves and the powerful others, had better results than the pure chance sample, but, surprisingly, worse than the pure powerful others sample. Next on the list was a type which did
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A study of “Changes in Distribution of Mean Scores of Locus of Control by Staff Level in Public Accounting Firms” shows that among the four measured groups: juniors, seniors, managers and senior managers, percentage of workers possessing internal locus of control increased with their hierarchical standing. The researchers argued that the possessors of high internal locus of control were more likely to advance in the working environment of accounting. However, they also allowed the possibility that the workers developed higher internal locus of control as they climbed the career ladder and truly had more control over their work, which was an important part of their life (Bernardi & Nydegger