Discover whether you believe your outcomes are driven by your own choices and effort — or by luck, circumstance, and forces beyond your control. Based on Rotter's foundational research, validated across decades of organizational and career studies.
You believe your actions, decisions, and effort are the primary drivers of your outcomes. You take ownership of results — good and bad — and focus on what you can change.
You believe luck, timing, powerful others, or circumstance play a dominant role in what happens to you. You see outcomes as less directly tied to personal effort.
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Ng, Sorensen & Eby's (2006) meta-analysis of 222 studies found that Internal LOC correlated significantly with job satisfaction (r=.32), job performance (r=.22), and salary level (r=.20). These are meaningful associations — not deterministic predictions.
Causation runs in both directions: internal orientation leads to proactive behavior, which produces better outcomes, which reinforces internal orientation. The loop is self-reinforcing — and it's interruptible at any point.
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