Sara Filipak
Developmental Psychology, Volume 24 Issue 1, 2019, pp. 85-96
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843879PR.19.005.10596The article presents the results of research on the locus of control in early adolescence among students from two different stages of education: primary school and junior high school, participating currently in the education system transformations. The results are a summary of the fi rst stage of a longitudinal project concerning the development of some personality variables among students. 1015 adolescents were examined with Locus of Control Questionnaire (Krasowicz-Kupis, Kurzyp-Wojnarska, 1990), in the school year 2016/2017. The results indicate an indefinite locus of control in situations of successes, failures and in generalized locus of control. The locus of control is shifted significantly more towards external control in students from junior high school, compared to primary school students and it pertains to successes, failures and generalized locus of control. Boys from primary schools are signifi cantly more internal as regards successes and generalized locus of control compared to boys from junior high schools.