“In personality psychology, locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.” – Wikipedia
“Internal vs. External Locus of Control
People who base their success on their own work and believe they control their life have an internal locus of control. In contrast, people who attribute their success or failure to outside influences have an external locus of control.” – study.com – Chapter 7/Lesson 5 – Instructor: Rob Wengrzyn
“Lucid dreaming: Associations with internal locus of control, need for cognition and creativity”
“…Frequent lucid dreamers have previously been shown to be more internal on Rotter’s Locus of Control (LOC) scale than are non-lucid dreamers. The present study found that frequent lucid dreamers had higher scores than non-lucid dreamers on the Internal dimension of Levenson’s LOC scale, but not on Levenson’s LOC Powerful Others and Chance dimensions…
…and also occasional lucid dreamers…, also scored significantly higher on Need for Cognition and on Gough’s self-assessed Creative Personality scale, than did non-lucid dreamers…
…The results indicate a continuity between styles of waking and dreaming cognition, just as previous work has shown a continuity of content…” – Lucid dreaming: Associations with internal locus of control, need for cognition and creativity
January 2000
The above includes excerpts of the article by M. Blagrove*, S.J. Hartnell – Department of Psychology, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK, Received 30 September 1998
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