Abstract
Nowadays researchers are paying more attention to factors that may lead to the promotion or inhibition of the academic performance and socializing the education through fostering the academic support. Cognitive abilities are no longer sufficient to determine academic success or failure, it is important to investigate the psychological skills as locus of control. The study aimed to investigate nursing student's experience on locus of control and its relation with learning performance and academic support. Cross section analytical study design was used to fulfill this study. This study was conducted at two settings: Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University and Faculty of Nursing, Suez Canal University. The study sample includes 222 students from Mansoura University and 186 students from Suez Canal University. Data of the present study were collected by using three tools namely: Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Learning Performance Scale and perceived academic support scale. Results of the present study indicated that more than half of students had internal locus of control rather than external locus of control, 55.9% of students had internal locus of control in Suez Canal University and 59.5% in Mansoura University, high learning performance and high perceived academic support of the participated students. There was no significant correlation between locus of control (internal or external) and learning performance or perceived academic support. more than half of students had internal locus of control rather than external locus of control and there was no significant correlation between locus of control (internal or external) and learning performance or perceived academic support. According to study findings academic administrators should pay attention to help students to improve and understand how their self perceptions may affect their academic performance.
Highlights
In the era of rapidly growing changes, an organization must adapt those changes to achieve success as well as think about student life and their best future
It determines the particular behavior and the outcomes of practicing these behaviors, characterized by one American Journal of Nursing Science 2017; 6(4): 315-323 continuum on which two extremes can be recognized: internal locus of control and external locus of control [5].The individuals with internal locus of control believe that they have a big role on affecting and direct the events in their lives whatever way they desire, they assess themselves as having the power for the attitude they want to display, they having high positive ego concept
It is important to investigate the contributions of psychological skills the IQ achievement such as self- locus of control to the prediction of academic performance, whether students have internal or external locus of control as the individuals, who have the internal locus of control, think that they have a big role on affecting the events which influence their lives
Summary
In the era of rapidly growing changes, an organization must adapt those changes to achieve success as well as think about student life and their best future. They must think about the student’s activities regarding their studies likewise their concentration in studies and their best performance in which subjects. Locus of control defined as a personality trait of how individuals perceive their ability to control life events or environment It determines the particular behavior and the outcomes of practicing these behaviors, characterized by one American Journal of Nursing Science 2017; 6(4): 315-323 continuum on which two extremes can be recognized: internal locus of control and external locus of control [5].The individuals with internal locus of control believe that they have a big role on affecting and direct the events in their lives whatever way they desire, they assess themselves as having the power for the attitude they want to display, they having high positive ego concept. The individuals who have external locus of control correlate the events affecting their lives to perceptions such as chance, fate or unpredictable which are out of their control [6]
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