Personality

Do You Control Your Life? (Locus of Control)

A 16-question locus of control test: do you see your life as shaped by your own actions or by outside forces — and what that costs or gives you.

16 questions 4 min

Instructions

There are no right answers. Answer what you genuinely believe about how life works, not what sounds like the mature answer.

Original items; construct based on Rotter's public-domain locus-of-control framework; the Rotter I-E questionnaire text is not reproduced.

Citations
  • Rotter, J. B. (1966). Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement. Psychological Monographs, 80(1). Locus of control construct; rotter i e scale items not reproduced
  • Seligman, M. E. P. (1975). Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death. Learned helplessness background