Locus of control and rural‐urban status in gifted high school students

Abstract

The study investigated differences between rural and urban gifted high school students on two measures of locus of control (LOC), the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR) and the Children's Nowicki‐Strickland Internal‐External control scale (CNSIE). Results indicated that rural gifted students tend to claim more responsibility for negative events in the academic domain (e.g., lower grade than was expected) than urban gifted students. Implications of the results are noted.